It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
H. G. WELLSOne of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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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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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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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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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 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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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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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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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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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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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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Advertising is legalized lying.
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