Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
H. G. WELLSWe are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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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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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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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 least resistance is the path of the loser.
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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 uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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