Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
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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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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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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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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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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Advertising is legalized lying.
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