What really matters is what you do with what you have.
H. G. WELLSThere 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.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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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 uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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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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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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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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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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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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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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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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I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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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.
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