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

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

Author: H. G. Wells

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If you fell down yesterday stand up today.

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

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

You can fool some people sometimes, but you can’t fool all the people all the time.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it.

Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.