Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
H. G. WELLSMan 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 path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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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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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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Our true nationality is mankind.
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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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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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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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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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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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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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