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

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" A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own. "

" The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships. "

" Tears come from the heart and not from the brain. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" 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. "

" The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. "

" Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts. "

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" I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own. "

" The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. "

" If you fell down yesterday, stand up today. "

" If we don't end war, war will end us. "

" One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good. "

" No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft. "

" History is a race between education and catastrophe. "

" In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table. "

" The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law. "

" 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. "

" Cynicism is humor in ill health. "

" Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge. "

" In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it. "

" What really matters is what you do with what you have. "

" I had rather be called a journalist than an artist. "

" Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. "

" Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have. "

" Our true nationality is mankind. "

" Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy. "

" We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative. "