In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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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While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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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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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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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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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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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 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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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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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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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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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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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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