In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
H. G. WELLSHeresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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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 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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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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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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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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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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?
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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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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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