Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. WELLSOnce 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.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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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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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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Advertising is legalized lying.
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The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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