History is a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. WELLSIf you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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There’s nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn’t abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
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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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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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