It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
H. G. WELLSWhat really matters is what you do with what you have.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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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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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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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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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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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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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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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Our true nationality is mankind.
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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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I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
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