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.
H. G. WELLSMoral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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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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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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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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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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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
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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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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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