We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
H. G. WELLSOur true nationality is mankind.
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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 crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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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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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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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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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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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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A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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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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