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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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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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 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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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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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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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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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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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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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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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Our true nationality is mankind.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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