Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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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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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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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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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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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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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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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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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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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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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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