We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
H. G. WELLSHistory is a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive ‘policies’ and ‘Plans’ of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word ‘socialism’, but what else can one call it?
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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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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Our true nationality is mankind.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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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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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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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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