After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
H. G. WELLSAdapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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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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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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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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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my 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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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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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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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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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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Advertising is legalized lying.
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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 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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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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Our true nationality is mankind.
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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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