Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
H. G. WELLSThe crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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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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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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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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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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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 uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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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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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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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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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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