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

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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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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

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The past is but the past of a beginning.

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

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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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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.

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

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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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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Author

Born: September 21st, 1866

Died: August 13th, 1946

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