Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
H. G. WELLSMan 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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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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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Advertising is legalized lying.
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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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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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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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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 path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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