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.
H. G. WELLSAffliction 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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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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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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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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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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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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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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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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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