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“Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.”
“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.”
“The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.”
“One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.”
“Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.”
“It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.”
“What really matters is what you do with what you have.”
“If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”
“Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.”
“The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.”
“No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.”
“If we don't end war, war will end us.”
“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.”
“The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.”
“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.”
“The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.”
“Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.”
“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.”
“Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.”
“Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.”