Our true nationality is mankind.
H. G. WELLSThere 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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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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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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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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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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The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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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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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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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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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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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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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