If we don’t end war, war will end us.
H. G. WELLSSome 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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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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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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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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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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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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