Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
H. G. WELLSThe crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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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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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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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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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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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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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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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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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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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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