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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

H. G. Wells

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
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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Bear Expect Had Have Kind People Some Three Trouble We
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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Been Begining Dawn Past Twilight
Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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Experiment Man Search Truth Unsatisfied
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
Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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Ambition Futility Knowledge Lead Nothing Straight Systematic
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
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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Become Between Catastrophe Education History Human More Race
Advertising is legalized lying.
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Advertise Legalize Lie
It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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Gamble Look Men Not Own Pay Reasonable That
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
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
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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Any Anything Confess Crew Do Floundering Imagination Must Refuge Sea See Sortm Submarine Suffocating
I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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Ahead Father My Own Scythe Time Want
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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Certain Doctrine Heaven Jesus Kingdom Main Most Revolutionary Teach

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