The past is but the past of a beginning.
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 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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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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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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 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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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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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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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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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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