English - Author | September 21, 1866 - August 13, 1946
If we don't end war, war will end us.
H. G. Wells
WarEndWillUs
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
YouMattersReally
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
EducationHistoryRaceMoreHuman
Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
FireLeadLitAshesLeadersFar
Our true nationality is mankind.
TrueMankindOurNationality
I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
SeaImaginationDoingSeeAnything
Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
BeginningSuccessfulExperiments
The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
PathLoserResistanceLeast
Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
PeopleTroubleThreeBearExpect
The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.
SportsManLawBetterGolfLegs
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.
EducationOrganizationGraduationOut
I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
FatherTimeGoWantAheadMy Own
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