I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
H. G. WELLSIf you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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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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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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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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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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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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