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.
H. G. WELLSHuman history in essence is the history of ideas.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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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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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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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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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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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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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Our true nationality is mankind.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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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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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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