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. 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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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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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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 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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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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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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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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