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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. "

H. G. Wells

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" Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him. "

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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. "

" It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own. "

" After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true. "

" The path of least resistance is the path of the loser. "

" If you fell down yesterday, stand up today. "

" Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have. "

" 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. "

" Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge. "

" 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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" One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good. "

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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? "

" 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. "