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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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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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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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 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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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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 crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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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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Cynicism 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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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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