Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
H. G. WELLSHuman history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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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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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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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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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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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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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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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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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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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive ‘policies’ and ‘Plans’ of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word ‘socialism’, but what else can one call it?
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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
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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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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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