The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
H. G. WELLSBiologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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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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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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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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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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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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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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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There’s nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn’t abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
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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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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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