Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
H. G. WELLSCynicism is humor in ill health.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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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 path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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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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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 we don’t end war, war will end us.
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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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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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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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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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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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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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