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.
H. G. WELLSOur true nationality is mankind.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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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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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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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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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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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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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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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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Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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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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