History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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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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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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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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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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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Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
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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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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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