The past is but the past of a beginning.
H. G. WELLSIn politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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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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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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Advertising is legalized lying.
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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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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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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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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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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 social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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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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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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