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.
H. G. WELLSThe 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.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
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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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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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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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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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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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