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.
H. G. WELLSAfter people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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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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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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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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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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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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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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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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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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Our true nationality is mankind.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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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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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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The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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