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. 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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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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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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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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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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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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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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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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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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.
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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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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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