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.
H. G. WELLSThe 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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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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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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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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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
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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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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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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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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 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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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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 are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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