The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
H. G. WELLSHeresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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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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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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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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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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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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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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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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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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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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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.
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While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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