The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
H. G. WELLSNo passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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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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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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History is 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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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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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 crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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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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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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