Some people bear three kinds of trouble – the ones they’ve had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
H. G. WELLSBeauty is in the heart of the beholder.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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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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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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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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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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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Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
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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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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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 past is but the past of a beginning.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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