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. 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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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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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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
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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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Advertising is legalized lying.
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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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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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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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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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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