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" It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own. "
H. G. Wells
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Men
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" No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft. "
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" Cynicism is humor in ill health. "
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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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" Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. "
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" Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth. "
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" One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good. "
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" Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have. "
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" Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. "
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" Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise. "
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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 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 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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" 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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" Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative. "
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" 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. "
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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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" The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships. "
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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. "
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