Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
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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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
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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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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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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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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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The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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