Once 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.
H. G. WELLSAdvertising is legalized lying.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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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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Our true nationality is mankind.
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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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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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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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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
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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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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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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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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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