We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
H. G. WELLSThe past is but the past of a beginning.
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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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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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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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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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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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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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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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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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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Advertising is legalized lying.
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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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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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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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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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Some people bear three kinds of trouble – the ones they’ve had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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