The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
H. G. WELLSHeresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do 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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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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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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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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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.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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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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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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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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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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