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.
H. G. WELLSSome people bear three kinds of trouble – the ones they’ve had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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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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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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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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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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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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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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