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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More H. G. Wells Quotes
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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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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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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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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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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What really matters is what you do with what you 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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The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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