It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
H. G. WELLSBiologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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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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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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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
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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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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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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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Advertising is legalized lying.
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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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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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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