The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
H. G. WELLSWhat really matters is what you do with what you have.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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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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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 crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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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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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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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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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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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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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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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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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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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 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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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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