No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
H. G. WELLSI must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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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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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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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 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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While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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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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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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