If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
H. G. WELLSWhat really matters is what you do with what you have.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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 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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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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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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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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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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Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
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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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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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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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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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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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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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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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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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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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A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own.
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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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