The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
H. G. WELLSWhile 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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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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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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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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The 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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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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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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Our true nationality is mankind.
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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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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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