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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

H. G. Wells

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.
H. G. WELLS

Come Dissension Dock International Made Politician Prompted Sure Time
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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Between Done Hand Have Measure might One Only Radio Success True
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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Attempt Century Comfortable Country Ifty Intervening Perception Rely Series Year
Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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Experiment Man Search Truth Unsatisfied
Advertising is legalized lying.
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Advertise Legalize Lie
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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Adult Bicycle Despair Every Future Human Longer Race Time
The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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Advancement Broken Friendship Path Social Strawn
The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive ‘policies’ and ‘Plans’ of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word ‘socialism’, but what else can one call it?
H. G. WELLS

Attempt Collapse Country Deal Evert New Plainly Social Socialism Worl
If we don’t end war, war will end us.
H. G. WELLS

Do End Not Us War
I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
H. G. WELLS

Artist Call Journalist Rather
The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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Almost Better Golf Law Leg Man Play Uglier
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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Been Begining Dawn Past Twilight
Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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Church Comfortable Hell More Much Ought Sailor
The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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Crise Joke One Liner Today Tomorrow
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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Action Ad But Come Make Sober Sorry Wise
Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
H. G. WELLS

Against Animal Child Hand Harsh Himself Ma Miriam Turn Nature Reared Revbel Unnatural

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