I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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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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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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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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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The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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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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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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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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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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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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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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