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.
H. G. WELLSAffliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
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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 in essence is the history of ideas.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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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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Advertising is legalized lying.
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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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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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