The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
H. G. WELLSMoral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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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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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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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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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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Some 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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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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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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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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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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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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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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The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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