Some people bear three kinds of trouble – the ones they’ve had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
H. G. WELLSThe 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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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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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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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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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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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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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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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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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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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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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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