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.
H. G. WELLSNo passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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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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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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Some people bear three kinds of trouble – the ones they’ve had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to 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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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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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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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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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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Our true nationality is mankind.
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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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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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