In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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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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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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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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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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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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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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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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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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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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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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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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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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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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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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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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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