I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
H. G. WELLSThe path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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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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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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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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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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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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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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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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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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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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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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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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