Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
H. G. WELLSThe 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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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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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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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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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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History is 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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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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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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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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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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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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