Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
H. G. WELLSCynicism is humor in ill health.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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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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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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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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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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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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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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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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