Cynicism is humor in ill health.
H. G. WELLSOne of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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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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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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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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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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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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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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 past is but the past of a 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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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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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 path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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