Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
H. G. WELLSCrime 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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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 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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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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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 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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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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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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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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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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