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.
H. G. WELLSI had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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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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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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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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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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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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The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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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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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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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.
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