We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
H. G. WELLSThe uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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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 past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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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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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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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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