Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
H. G. WELLSMoral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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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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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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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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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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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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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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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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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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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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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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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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One 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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