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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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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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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 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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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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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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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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