One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
H. G. WELLSLeaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
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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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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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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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Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
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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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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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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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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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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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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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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