If we don’t end war, war will end us.
H. G. WELLSSome people bear three kinds of trouble – the ones they’ve had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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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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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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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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The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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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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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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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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 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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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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