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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Advertising is legalized lying.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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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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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
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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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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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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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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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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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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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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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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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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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