Some people bear three kinds of trouble – the ones they’ve had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
H. G. WELLSNo passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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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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Our true nationality is mankind.
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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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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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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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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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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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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their 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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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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