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. 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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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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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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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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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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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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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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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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