We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
H. G. WELLSBiologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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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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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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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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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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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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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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