The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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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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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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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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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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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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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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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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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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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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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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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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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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