Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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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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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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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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 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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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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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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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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