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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.

H. G. Wells

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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Blind Command Conflict Contending Host Obtain Once One See War
Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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Experiment Man Search Truth Unsatisfied
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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Been Begining Dawn Past Twilight
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
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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Even Great May Meaning Number People Phrase Realize Repeat Respect Time True
Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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Ambition Futility Knowledge Lead Nothing Straight Systematic
The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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Crise Joke One Liner Today Tomorrow
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
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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Bear Expect Had Have Kind People Some Three Trouble We
While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
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Change Get There Through Trouble What World
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
Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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Adapt Education Ever More Now Perish Race
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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Ashes Can Choke Far Free Have Lead Leader Navish
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
History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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Between Catastrophe Education History Race

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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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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