We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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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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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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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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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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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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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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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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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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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
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