The past is but the past of a beginning.
H. G. WELLSBiologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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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 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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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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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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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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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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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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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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