We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
H. G. WELLSThe 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.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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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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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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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 had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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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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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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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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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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 becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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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 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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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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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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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 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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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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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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