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.
H. G. WELLSAdapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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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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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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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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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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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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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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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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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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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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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