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

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.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

Our true nationality is mankind.

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

Advertising is legalized lying.

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

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?

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

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

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.