We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
H. G. WELLSThe path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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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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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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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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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
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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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The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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