History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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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 want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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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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The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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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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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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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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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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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