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.
H. G. WELLSOur true nationality is mankind.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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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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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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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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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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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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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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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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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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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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