Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
H. G. WELLSHistory is a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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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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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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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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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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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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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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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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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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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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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