I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
H. G. WELLSIt is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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Our true nationality is mankind.
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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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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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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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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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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 path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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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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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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