Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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More H. G. Wells Quotes
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There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
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The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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Some people bear three kinds of trouble – the ones they’ve had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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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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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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