Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. WELLSHeresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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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 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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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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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 we don’t end war, war will end us.
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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive ‘policies’ and ‘Plans’ of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word ‘socialism’, but what else can one call it?
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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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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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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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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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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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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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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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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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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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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Our true nationality is mankind.
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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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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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