History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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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’s nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn’t abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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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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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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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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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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