One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
H. G. WELLSHistory is a race between education and catastrophe.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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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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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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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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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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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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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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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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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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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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