The past is but the past of a beginning.
H. G. WELLSThe doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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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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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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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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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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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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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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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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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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