Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
H. G. WELLSI want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
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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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Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
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The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive ‘policies’ and ‘Plans’ of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word ‘socialism’, but what else can one call it?
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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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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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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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 least resistance is the path of the loser.
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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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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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