One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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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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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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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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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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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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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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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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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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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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