Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
H. G. WELLSHeresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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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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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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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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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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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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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 uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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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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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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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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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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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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