Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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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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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Advertising is legalized lying.
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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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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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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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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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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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 New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive ‘policies’ and ‘Plans’ of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word ‘socialism’, but what else can one call it?
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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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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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