Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
H. G. WELLSThere 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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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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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 crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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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The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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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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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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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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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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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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