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.
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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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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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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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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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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Some people bear three kinds of trouble – the ones they’ve had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
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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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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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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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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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