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.
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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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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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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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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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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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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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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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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
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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 want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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