Cynicism is humor in ill health.
H. G. WELLSOne of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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 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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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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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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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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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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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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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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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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