"Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind."
-H. G. Wells
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"Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.“
-H. G. Wells
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"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."
-H. G. Wells
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"If we don't end war, war will end us."
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"Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth."
-H. G. Wells
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"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race."
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"Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not."
-Stanley Fish
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"Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training."
-Harrison Salisbury
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"Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity."
-Abraham Cowley
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"My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science."
-George Andrew Olah
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"Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience."
-Carl Clinton Van Doren
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"What is research but a blind date with knowledge?"
-Will Harvey
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