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.
H. G. WELLSLeaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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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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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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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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There’s nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn’t abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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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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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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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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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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