Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
H. G. WELLSIn politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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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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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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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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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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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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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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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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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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