Our true nationality is mankind.
H. G. WELLSHistory is a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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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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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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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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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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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
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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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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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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 are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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