History is 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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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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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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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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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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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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 social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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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 past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
H. G. WELLS