History is a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. WELLSThe past is but the past of a beginning.
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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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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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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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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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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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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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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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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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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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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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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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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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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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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