If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
From H. G. Wells
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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?
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.
Our true nationality is mankind.
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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