The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
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The past is but the past of a 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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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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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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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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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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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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