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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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Least Loser Path Resistance
History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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Between Catastrophe Education History Race
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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Attempt Collapse Country Deal Evert New Plainly Social Socialism Worl
Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
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Against Animal Child Hand Harsh Himself Ma Miriam Turn Nature Reared Revbel Unnatural
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
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
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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Action Ad But Come Make Sober Sorry Wise
Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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Accumulation All Beginning Biological Experience Individual Since Species Successful
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
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
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
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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Ashes Can Choke Far Free Have Lead Leader Navish
We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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Century Fifteen Half Live Not Out Suggest University Our Way Year
The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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Advancement Broken Friendship Path Social Strawn
I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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Artist Call Journalist Rather
Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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Experiment Man Search Truth Unsatisfied

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