Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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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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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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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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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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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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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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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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