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

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

" 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. "

" If we don't end war, war will end us. "

" After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Our true nationality is mankind. "

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

" 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. "

" Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" Beauty is in the heart of the beholder. "

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

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

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

" Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit. "

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