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.
H. G. WELLSLeaders 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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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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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 path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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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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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 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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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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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