Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
H. G. WELLSThe path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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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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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 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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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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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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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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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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