The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
H. G. WELLSCynicism is humor in ill health.
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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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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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Our true nationality is mankind.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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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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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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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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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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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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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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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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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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