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.
H. G. WELLSThe crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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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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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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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Advertising is legalized lying.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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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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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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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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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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