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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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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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 uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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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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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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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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