Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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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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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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 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.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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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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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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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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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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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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