We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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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Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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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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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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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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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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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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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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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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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.
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