Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
H. G. WELLSMoral 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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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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The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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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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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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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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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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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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There’s nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn’t abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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