History is a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. WELLSHistory is a race between education and catastrophe.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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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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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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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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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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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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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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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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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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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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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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