What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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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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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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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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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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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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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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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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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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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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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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