Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
H. G. WELLSAffliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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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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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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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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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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Human history becomes more and more 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 path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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