Our true nationality is mankind.
H. G. WELLSSailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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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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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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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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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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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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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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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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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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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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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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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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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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