History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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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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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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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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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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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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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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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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