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.
H. G. WELLSWe are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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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 uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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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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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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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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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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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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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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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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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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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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