Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
H. G. WELLSOur true nationality is mankind.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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 but the past of a beginning.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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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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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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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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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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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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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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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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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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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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