History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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 crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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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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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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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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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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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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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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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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