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.
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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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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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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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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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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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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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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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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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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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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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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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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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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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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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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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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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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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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