The past is but the past of a beginning.
H. G. WELLSHistory is a race between education and catastrophe.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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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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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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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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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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