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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

H. G. Wells

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
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
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
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
In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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Best Card Enough Facem Upward Play Politics Strangely Table Way
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
After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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Even Great May Meaning Number People Phrase Realize Repeat Respect Time True
The past is but the past of a beginning.
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Begin But Past
Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
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Blind Command Conflict Contending Host Obtain Once One See War
Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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Beauty Beholder Heart Heaven
The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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Crise Joke One Liner Today Tomorrow
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
Advertising is legalized lying.
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Advertise Legalize Lie
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
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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Halo Indignation Jealousy More
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

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