Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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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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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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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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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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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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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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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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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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 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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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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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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