It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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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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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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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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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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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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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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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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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