Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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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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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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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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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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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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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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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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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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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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