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" The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law. "
H. G. Wells
Sports
Golf
Better
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" Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative. "
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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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" 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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" I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own. "
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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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" 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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Bridges
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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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" No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft. "
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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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" Our true nationality is mankind. "
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Mankind
True
" 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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" 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
" Human history in essence is the history of ideas. "
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Ideas
Essence
" It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own. "
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Own
Gamble
Men
" The past is but the past of a beginning. "
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Beginning
Past
" If you fell down yesterday, stand up today. "
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Stand
Today
Stand Up
" 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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Lit
Leaders
Lead
" Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning. "
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Beginning
Experiments
Successful
" Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth. "
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Experiments
Man
Truth
" If we don't end war, war will end us. "
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War
Us
Will
" The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow. "
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Today
Tomorrow
Joke
" 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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Purpose
Suffering
Revolution
" 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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Man
Turn
Rebel
" Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable. "
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Church
Comfortable
Never
" Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. "
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Jealousy
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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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" 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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Education
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" Advertising is legalized lying. "
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Advertising
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Legal