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

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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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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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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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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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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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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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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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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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