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" 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. "
H. G. Wells
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" The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow. "
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" The path of least resistance is the path of the loser. "
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" Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race. "
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" Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have. "
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" I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own. "
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" If we don't end war, war will end us. "
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" Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge. "
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" Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable. "
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" If you fell down yesterday, stand up today. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Cynicism is humor in ill health. "
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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 but the past of a beginning. "
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" 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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" 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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" After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true. "
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" Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative. "
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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. "
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" I had rather be called a journalist than an artist. "
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" Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth. "
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" Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise. "
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" What really matters is what you do with what you have. "
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" Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. "
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