Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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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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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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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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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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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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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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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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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Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own.
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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.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive ‘policies’ and ‘Plans’ of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word ‘socialism’, but what else can one call it?
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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