In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
H. G. WELLSEvery time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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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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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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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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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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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 path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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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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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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