Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
H. G. WELLSOur true nationality is mankind.
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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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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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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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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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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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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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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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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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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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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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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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