The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
H. G. WELLSThere’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.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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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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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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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 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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Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
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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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Our true nationality is mankind.
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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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Advertising is legalized lying.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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