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.
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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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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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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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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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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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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The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
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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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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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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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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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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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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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