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.
H. G. WELLSThe path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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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 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 crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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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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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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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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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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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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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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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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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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