The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
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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Advertising is legalized lying.
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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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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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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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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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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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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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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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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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