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

Quote by H G Wells

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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of...

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of...

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them...

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them...

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done...

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done...

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

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

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

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

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the...

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the...

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

Advertising is legalized lying.

Advertising is legalized lying.

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything...

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything...

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

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

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that...

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that...

The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a...

The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a...

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they...

Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they...

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

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

Think not that I am come to send peace on earth; I came not to...

Think not that I am come to send peace on earth; I came not to...

What was taken by force, can only be restored by force.

What was taken by force, can only be restored by force.

France has sincerely wished peace, and their seducers have wished war, as well for the...

France has sincerely wished peace, and their seducers have wished war, as well for the...