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1866 - 1946 (80)

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Quote 1

Human history is in essence a history of ideas.

Quote 2

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Quote 3

The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is or has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

Quote 4

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Quote 5

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.

Quote 6

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

Quote 7

There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.

Quote 8

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

Quote 9

With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter.