I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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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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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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There’s nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn’t abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
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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 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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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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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 path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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