Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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 the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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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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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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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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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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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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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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my 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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Our true nationality is mankind.
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