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.
H. G. WELLSAffliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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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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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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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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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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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
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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 crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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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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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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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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