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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
H. G. Wells
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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
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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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Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
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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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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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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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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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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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