English - Author | September 21, 1866 - August 13, 1946
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
H. G. Wells
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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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Advertising is legalized lying.
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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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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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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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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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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
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