Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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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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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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 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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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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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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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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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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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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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 had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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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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