I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
H. G. WELLSNothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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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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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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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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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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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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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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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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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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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Advertising is legalized lying.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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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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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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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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