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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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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We should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what help us grow. With out them we grow weak like the Eloi in comfort and security. We need to constantly be challenging ourselves in order to strengthen our character and increase our intelligence.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.
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The third peculiarity of aerial warfare was that it was at once enourmously destructive and entirely indecisive.
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The Boss: You are not mechanics, you are warriors. You have been trained, not to think, but to do.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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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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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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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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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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If we don't end war, war will end us.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
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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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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.
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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.
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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.
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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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