I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
H. G. WELLSIf we don’t end war, war will end us.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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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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The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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Some people bear three kinds of trouble – the ones they’ve had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
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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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Human 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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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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Our true nationality is mankind.
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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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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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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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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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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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