Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
H. G. WELLSSailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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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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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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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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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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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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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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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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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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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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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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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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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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