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A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and prom...  
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.   Nature
Advertising is legalized lying.  
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us s...  
And in the air are no streets, no channels, no point where one can say...  
Bah! The thing is not a nose at all, but a bit of primordial chaos cla...  
Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.  
Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all...  
Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in...  
Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia.  
Cynicism is humor in ill health.  
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the fu...  
Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.  
He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.  
Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.  
History is a race between education and catastrophe.  
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catas...   History
Human history in essence is the history of ideas.  
I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarin...  
I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.  
If we don't end war, war will end us.  
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.  
In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty y...  
In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to l...  
Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes sh...  
Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and m...  
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.  
Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armie...  
One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildne...  
Our true nationality is mankind.  
Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where i...  
Security puts a premium on feebleness.  
She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good d...  
She writes like a loom, producing her broad rich fabric with hardly a ...  
Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the on...  
The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.  
The crisis of yesterday is the joke of tomorrow.  
The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of ...  
The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and ...  
The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might ha...  
The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.  
The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken fri...  
The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins...  
The third peculiarity of aerial warfare was that it was at once enormo...  
The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a ...  
There comes a moment in the day when you have written your pages in th...  
There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and rai...  
They realized that the chief danger in aerial warfare from an excitabl...  
We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-w...  
What really matters is what you do with what you have.  
While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I h...  
You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had l...