No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
H. G. WELLSBiologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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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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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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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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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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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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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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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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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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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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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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Advertising is legalized lying.
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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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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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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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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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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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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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