History is a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. WELLSI want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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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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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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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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Advertising is legalized lying.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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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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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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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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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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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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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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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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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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