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H. G. WELLSOnce the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive ‘policies’ and ‘Plans’ of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word ‘socialism’, but what else can one call it?
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Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
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Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
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Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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