Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
H. G. WELLSSome 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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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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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.
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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 politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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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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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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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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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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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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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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