What really matters is what you do with what you have.
H. G. WELLSThe path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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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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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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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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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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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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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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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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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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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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Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
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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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