If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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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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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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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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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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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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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
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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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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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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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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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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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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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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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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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History is 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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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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