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?
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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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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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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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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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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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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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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