No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
H. G. WELLSWe have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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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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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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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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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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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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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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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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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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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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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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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