Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
H. G. WELLSI want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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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.
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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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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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