In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
H. G. WELLSHuman history in essence is the history of ideas.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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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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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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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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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own.
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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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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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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The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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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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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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