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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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" It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable. "

" Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community. "

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

" Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. "

" The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow. "

" Advertising is legalized lying. "

" 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. "

" Beauty is in the heart of the beholder. "

" History is a race between education and catastrophe. "

" Our true nationality is mankind. "

" 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. "

" Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit. "

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

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

" The path of least resistance is the path of the loser. "

" Cynicism is humor in ill health. "

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

" I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea. "