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.
H. G. WELLSAdapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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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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 crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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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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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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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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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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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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