The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
H. G. WELLSThe 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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Advertising is legalized lying.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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Some people bear three kinds of trouble – the ones they’ve had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
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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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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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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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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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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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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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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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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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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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