Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
H. G. WELLSNothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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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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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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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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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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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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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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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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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.
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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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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 past is but the past of a beginning.
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