I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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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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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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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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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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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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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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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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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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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.
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