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. WELLSSailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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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 path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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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 uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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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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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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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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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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