The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
H. G. WELLSOur true nationality is mankind.
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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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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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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A 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.
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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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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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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.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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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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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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