If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
H. G. WELLSHuman history in essence is the history of ideas.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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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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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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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
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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 crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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