It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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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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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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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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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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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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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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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 becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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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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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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