Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
H. G. WELLSEvery time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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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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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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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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Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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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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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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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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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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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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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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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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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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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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