Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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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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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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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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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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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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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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 past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
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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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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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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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