Some people bear three kinds of trouble – the ones they’ve had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
H. G. WELLSHeresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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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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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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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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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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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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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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I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
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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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