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.
H. G. WELLSThe past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
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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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Man 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.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive ‘policies’ and ‘Plans’ of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word ‘socialism’, but what else can one call it?
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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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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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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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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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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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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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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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The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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