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There were endless possibilities, not out of reach.

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The next move is with the head, and fists must wait.

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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

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I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.

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Others have suggested seriously a "barometer of probability."

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The engine which drives Enterprise is not Thrift, but Profit.

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Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated.
Of Woodrow Wilson

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When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?

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I don't feel the least humble before the vastness of the heavens.

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Logic, like lyrical poetry, is no employment for the middle-aged,

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Look after the unemployment and the Budget will look after itself.

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Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.

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All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.

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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

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The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.

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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.

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Of Lloyd George:
Who shall paint the chameleon, who can tether a broomstick?

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The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.

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Probability is, so far as measurement is concerned, closely analogous to similarity.

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In this autumn of 1919, in which I write, we are at the dead season of our fortunes.

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There is no harm in being sometimes wrong — especially if one is promptly found out.

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It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.

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The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.

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The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.

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We threw good housekeeping to the winds. But we saved ourselves and helped save the world.
Of Britain in the Second World War

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But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future.

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Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts upon the unthinking.

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I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx.

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Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.

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Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.

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