History is a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. WELLSHuman history in essence is the history of ideas.
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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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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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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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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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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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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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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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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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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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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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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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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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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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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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