After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
H. G. WELLSCynicism is humor in ill health.
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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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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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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
H. G. WELLSWe have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
H. G. WELLSCynicism is humor in ill health.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
H. G. WELLSI had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
H. G. WELLSI want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
H. G. WELLSOur true nationality is mankind.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
H. G. WELLSIf you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
H. G. WELLSBeauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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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?
H. G. WELLSThe 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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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.
H. G. WELLSWhile 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.
H. G. WELLSWhat really matters is what you do with what you have.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
H. G. WELLSThe path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
H. G. WELLSThe 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.
H. G. WELLSThe 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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I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
H. G. WELLSI 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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