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.
H. G. WELLSHeresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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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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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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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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Our true nationality is mankind.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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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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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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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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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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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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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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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 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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