Some people bear three kinds of trouble – the ones they’ve had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
H. G. WELLSI must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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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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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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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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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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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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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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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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