I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
H. G. WELLSThere 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.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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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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I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
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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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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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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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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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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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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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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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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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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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 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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