No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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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The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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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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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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Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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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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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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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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