Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
H. G. WELLSThe 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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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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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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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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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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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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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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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