There’s nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn’t abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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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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The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
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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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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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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