If we don’t end war, war will end us.
H. G. WELLSWhile there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
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There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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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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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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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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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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The 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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