Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
H. G. WELLSIn 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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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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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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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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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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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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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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Advertising is legalized lying.
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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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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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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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