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.
H. G. WELLSIf you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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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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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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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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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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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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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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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own.
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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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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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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