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.
H. G. WELLSIf you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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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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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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There’s nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn’t abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
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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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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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