What really matters is what you do with what you have.
H. G. WELLSMoral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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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 path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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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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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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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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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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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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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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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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