I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
H. G. WELLSWhile 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.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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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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There’s nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn’t abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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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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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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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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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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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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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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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