Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
H. G. WELLSHistory is a race between education and catastrophe.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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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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The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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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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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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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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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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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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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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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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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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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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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