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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.

H. G. Wells

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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Come Dissension Dock International Made Politician Prompted Sure Time
We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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Century Change Conception Education Graduation Hardly Made Organization Several
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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Adapt Education Ever More Now Perish Race
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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Abolish Danger Death Made Nothing Purpose Revolution Simply Uffer Worldwide
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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Between Done Hand Have Measure might One Only Radio Success True
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.
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Change Get There Through Trouble What World
Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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Ambition Futility Knowledge Lead Nothing Straight Systematic
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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Been Begining Dawn Past Twilight
Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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Accumulation All Beginning Biological Experience Individual Since Species Successful
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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Become Between Catastrophe Education History Human More Race
The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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Least Loser Path Resistance
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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Adult Bicycle Despair Every Future Human Longer Race Time
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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Attempt Collapse Country Deal Evert New Plainly Social Socialism Worl
We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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Century Fifteen Half Live Not Out Suggest University Our Way Year
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.
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Attempt Century Comfortable Country Ifty Intervening Perception Rely Series Year
If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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Do End Not Us War

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