What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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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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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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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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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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