History is a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. WELLSThe past is but the past of a beginning.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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 path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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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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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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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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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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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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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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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