Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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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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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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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 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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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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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.
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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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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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