Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
H. G. WELLSThe path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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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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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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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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Our true nationality is mankind.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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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 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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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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