Cynicism is humor in ill health.
H. G. WELLSBiologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the 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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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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There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
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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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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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