Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
H. G. WELLSOne 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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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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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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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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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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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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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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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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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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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 crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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