The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
H. G. WELLSMan 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.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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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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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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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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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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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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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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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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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