Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
H. G. WELLSHuman history in essence is the history of ideas.
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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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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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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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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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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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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Advertising is legalized lying.
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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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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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