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. 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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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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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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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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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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