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.
H. G. WELLSHistory is a race between education and catastrophe.
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There’s nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn’t abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
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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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Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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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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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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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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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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