Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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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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Advertising is legalized lying.
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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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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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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 becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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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 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.
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