Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. WELLSWe have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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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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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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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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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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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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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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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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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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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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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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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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