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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.

H. G. Wells

The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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Almost Better Golf Law Leg Man Play Uglier
Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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Essence History Human Idea
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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Bridge Device Embankment Engineer Iron Machinery Nothing Obligate Railway
It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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Gamble Look Men Not Own Pay Reasonable That
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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Attempt Collapse Country Deal Evert New Plainly Social Socialism Worl
The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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Crise Joke One Liner Today Tomorrow
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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Between Done Hand Have Measure might One Only Radio Success True
The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
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Certain Doctrine Heaven Jesus Kingdom Main Most Revolutionary Teach
Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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Beauty Beholder Heart Heaven
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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Against Animal Child Hand Harsh Himself Ma Miriam Turn Nature Reared Revbel Unnatural
We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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Century Change Conception Education Graduation Hardly Made Organization Several
One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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Dark Evil Good One Surely Unteachable Wellness World
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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Halo Indignation Jealousy More
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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Attempt Century Comfortable Country Ifty Intervening Perception Rely Series Year
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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Come Dissension Dock International Made Politician Prompted Sure Time
The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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Least Loser Path Resistance

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