The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
H. G. WELLSHistory is a race between education and catastrophe.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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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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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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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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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 path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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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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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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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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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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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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