Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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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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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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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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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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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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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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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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 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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