The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
H. G. WELLSMan 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.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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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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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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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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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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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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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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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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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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