Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
H. G. WELLSThe path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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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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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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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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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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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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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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The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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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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