Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
H. G. WELLSSailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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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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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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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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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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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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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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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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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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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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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