In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
H. G. WELLSThe past is but the past of a beginning.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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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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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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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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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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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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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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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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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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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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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