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.
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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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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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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Advertising is legalized lying.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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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The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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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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