Human history becomes more and more 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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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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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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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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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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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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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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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Our true nationality is mankind.
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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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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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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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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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