Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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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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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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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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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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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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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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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