I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
H. G. WELLSHeresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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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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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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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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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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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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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 past is but the past of a beginning.
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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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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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 path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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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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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