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.
H. G. WELLSThe crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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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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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
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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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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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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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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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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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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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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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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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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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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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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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