Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
H. G. WELLSThe path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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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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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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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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The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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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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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Advertising is legalized lying.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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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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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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