I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
H. G. WELLSIf you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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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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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.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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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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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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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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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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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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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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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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