Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
H. G. WELLSNo passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own.
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While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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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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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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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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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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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