The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
H. G. Wells
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- Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
- In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
- No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
- 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.
- History is a race between education and catastrophe.