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.
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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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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There’s nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn’t abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
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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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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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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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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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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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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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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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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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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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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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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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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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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Our true nationality is mankind.
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