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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

H. G. Wells

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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Gamble Look Men Not Own Pay Reasonable That
Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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Cynicism Health Humor Ill
The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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Advancement Broken Friendship Path Social Strawn
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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Become Between Catastrophe Education History Human More Race
The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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Crise Joke One Liner Today Tomorrow
The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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Least Loser Path Resistance
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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Adapt Education Ever More Now Perish Race
Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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Church Comfortable Hell More Much Ought Sailor
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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Halo Indignation Jealousy More
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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Certain Doctrine Heaven Jesus Kingdom Main Most Revolutionary Teach
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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Blind Command Conflict Contending Host Obtain Once One See War
Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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Ambition Futility Knowledge Lead Nothing Straight Systematic
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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Between Done Hand Have Measure might One Only Radio Success True
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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Attempt Collapse Country Deal Evert New Plainly Social Socialism Worl
If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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Do End Not Us War
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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Change Get There Through Trouble What World

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