The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
H. G. WELLSBeauty is in the heart of the beholder.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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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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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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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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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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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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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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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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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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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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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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