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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.

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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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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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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

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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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History is a race between education and catastrophe.

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Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.

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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

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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.

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Cynicism is humor in ill health.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Author

Born: September 21st, 1866

Died: August 13th, 1946

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