The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
H. G. WELLSLeaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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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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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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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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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 path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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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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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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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 path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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