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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.

H. G. Wells

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
Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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Ambition Futility Knowledge Lead Nothing Straight Systematic
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
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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Bear Expect Had Have Kind People Some Three Trouble We
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 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
I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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Artist Call Journalist Rather
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
We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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Century Change Conception Education Graduation Hardly Made Organization Several
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
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
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
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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Bridge Device Embankment Engineer Iron Machinery Nothing Obligate Railway
Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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Essence History Human Idea
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
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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Down Feel Stand Today Yesterday

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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