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H. G. WELLSThe path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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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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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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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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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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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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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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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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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
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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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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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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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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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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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