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.
H. G. WELLSIn 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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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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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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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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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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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 uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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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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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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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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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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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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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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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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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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