In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
H. G. WELLSIt is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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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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Our true nationality is mankind.
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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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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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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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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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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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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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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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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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