No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
H. G. WELLSNo passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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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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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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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
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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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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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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 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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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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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Our true nationality is mankind.
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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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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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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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