Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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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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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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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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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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