There 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.
H. G. WELLSThere’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.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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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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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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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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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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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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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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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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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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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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