After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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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Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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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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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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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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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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