It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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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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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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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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 crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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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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