I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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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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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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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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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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