What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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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The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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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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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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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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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 doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
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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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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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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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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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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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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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