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.
H. G. WELLSThere’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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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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Our true nationality is mankind.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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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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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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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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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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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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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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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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