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.
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 path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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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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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 uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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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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Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
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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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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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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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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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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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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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