We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
H. G. WELLSThe crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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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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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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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 politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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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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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Advertising is legalized lying.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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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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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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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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