We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
H. G. WELLSCynicism is humor in ill health.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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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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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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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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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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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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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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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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