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.
H. G. WELLSOur true nationality is mankind.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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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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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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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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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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There’s nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn’t abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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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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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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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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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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