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.
H. G. WELLSEvery time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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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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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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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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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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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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