The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
H. G. WELLSThe 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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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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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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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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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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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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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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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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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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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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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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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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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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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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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