Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
H. G. WELLSAdapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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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.
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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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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive ‘policies’ and ‘Plans’ of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word ‘socialism’, but what else can one call it?
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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 past is but the past of a beginning.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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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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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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