Our true nationality is mankind.
H. G. WELLSMoral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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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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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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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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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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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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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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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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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Some people bear three kinds of trouble – the ones they’ve had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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