Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
H. G. WELLSWhat really matters is what you do with what you have.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive ‘policies’ and ‘Plans’ of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word ‘socialism’, but what else can one call it?
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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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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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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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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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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