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" The past is but the past of a beginning. "

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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. "

" 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. "

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

" Human history in essence is the history of ideas. "

" If we don't end war, war will end us. "

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

" A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own. "

" What really matters is what you do with what you have. "

" 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. "

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

" Advertising is legalized lying. "

" In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table. "

" 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. "

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

" I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea. "

" Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. "

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

" Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise. "

" 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. "

" Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable. "

" 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. "

" Beauty is in the heart of the beholder. "

" Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit. "

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

" No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft. "

" 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. "

" Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative. "

" Our true nationality is mankind. "