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.
H. G. WELLSIf we don’t end war, war will end us.
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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 past is but the past of a beginning.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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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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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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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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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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The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
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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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