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

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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. "

" Human history in essence is the history of ideas. "

" History is a race between education and catastrophe. "

" The past is but the past of a beginning. "

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

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

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

" Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. "

" Advertising is legalized lying. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Cynicism is humor in ill health. "

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

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

" Beauty is in the heart of the beholder. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth. "

" 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. "

" Our true nationality is mankind. "

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

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

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

" 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? "

" Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race. "