After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
H. G. WELLSIn politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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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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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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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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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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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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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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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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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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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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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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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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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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