Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
H. G. WELLSThe crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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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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The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
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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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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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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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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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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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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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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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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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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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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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