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.
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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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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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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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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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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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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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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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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