The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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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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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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
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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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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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Our true nationality is mankind.
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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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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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The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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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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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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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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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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Some people bear three kinds of trouble – the ones they’ve had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
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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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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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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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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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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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