Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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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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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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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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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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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