Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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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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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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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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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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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