Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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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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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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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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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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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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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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 past is but the past of a beginning.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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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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