Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
H. G. WELLSCynicism is humor in ill health.
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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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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 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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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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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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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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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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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 crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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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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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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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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