The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
H. G. WELLSOne of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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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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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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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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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 path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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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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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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