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" Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable. "
H. G. Wells
Church
Comfortable
Never
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" 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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" 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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" The past is but the past of a beginning. "
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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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" Our true nationality is mankind. "
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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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" In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table. "
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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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" I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own. "
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" Beauty is in the heart of the beholder. "
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" Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning. "
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" I had rather be called a journalist than an artist. "
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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. "
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" Cynicism is humor in ill health. "
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" The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow. "
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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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" 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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Will
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" No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft. "
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World
" Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge. "
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Knowledge
Nothing
" The path of least resistance is the path of the loser. "
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Least
Resistance
" The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships. "
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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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Done
" What really matters is what you do with what you have. "
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" Advertising is legalized lying. "
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" I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea. "
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" The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law. "
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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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