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. WELLSThe past is but the past of a beginning.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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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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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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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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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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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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Our true nationality is mankind.
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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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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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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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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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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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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 path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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