I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
H. G. WELLSI want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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The 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?
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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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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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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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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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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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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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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