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. WELLSCynicism is humor in ill health.
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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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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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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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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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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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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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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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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