Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
H. G. WELLSA 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.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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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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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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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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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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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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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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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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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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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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History is 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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Our true nationality is mankind.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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