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

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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. "

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

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

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

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