Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
H. G. WELLSThe 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?
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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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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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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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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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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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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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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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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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
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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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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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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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