One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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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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Our true nationality is mankind.
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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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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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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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While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
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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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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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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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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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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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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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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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