Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
H. G. WELLSThe doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
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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.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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