Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
H. G. WELLSThe path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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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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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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 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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The 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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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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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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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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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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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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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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