History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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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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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 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 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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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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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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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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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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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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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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