Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
JOHN GALSWORTHYPublic opinion’s always in advance of the law.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.
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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don’t say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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And to be stolen away from ourselves by Art is a momentary relaxation from that itching, a minute’s profound, and as it were secret, enfranchisement.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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