Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
H. G. WELLSWe 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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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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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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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive ‘policies’ and ‘Plans’ of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word ‘socialism’, but what else can one call it?
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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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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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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 crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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