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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

H. G. Wells

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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Adult Bicycle Despair Every Future Human Longer Race Time
The past is but the past of a beginning.
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Begin But Past
Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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Beauty Beholder Heart Heaven
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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Between Done Hand Have Measure might One Only Radio Success True
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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Abolish Danger Death Made Nothing Purpose Revolution Simply Uffer Worldwide
One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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Dark Evil Good One Surely Unteachable Wellness World
Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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Cynicism Health Humor Ill
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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Ater Draft Else Equal Passion Someone World
Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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Essence History Human Idea
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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Come Dissension Dock International Made Politician Prompted Sure Time
The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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Almost Better Golf Law Leg Man Play Uglier
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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Attempt Century Comfortable Country Ifty Intervening Perception Rely Series Year
History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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Between Catastrophe Education History Race
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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Change Get There Through Trouble What World
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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Down Feel Stand Today Yesterday
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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Bridge Device Embankment Engineer Iron Machinery Nothing Obligate Railway

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