Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
H. G. WELLSThe path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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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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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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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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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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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 uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my 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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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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