The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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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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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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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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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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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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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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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Some people bear three kinds of trouble – the ones they’ve had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
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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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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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 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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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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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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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own.
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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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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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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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