The past is but the past of a beginning.
H. G. WELLSBiologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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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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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
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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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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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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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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 uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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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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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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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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