Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
H. G. WELLSOnce 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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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive ‘policies’ and ‘Plans’ of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word ‘socialism’, but what else can one call it?
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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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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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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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 uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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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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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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