Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
H. G. WELLSIt is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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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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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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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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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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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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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?
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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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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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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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