What really matters is what you do with what you have.
H. G. WELLSWhile there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
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While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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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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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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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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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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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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