Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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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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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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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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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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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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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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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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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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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