The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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 in essence is the history of ideas.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
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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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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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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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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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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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A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own.
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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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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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