The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
H. G. WELLSThe path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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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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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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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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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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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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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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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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