Advertising is legalized lying.
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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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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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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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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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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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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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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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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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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