It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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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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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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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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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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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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Advertising is legalized lying.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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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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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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