The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
H. G. WELLSThe 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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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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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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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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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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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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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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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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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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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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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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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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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 had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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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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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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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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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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