We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
H. G. WELLSA 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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Advertising is legalized lying.
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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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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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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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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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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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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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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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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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