Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
H. G. WELLSOur true nationality is mankind.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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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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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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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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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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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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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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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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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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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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