Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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Advertising is legalized lying.
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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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Some people bear three kinds of trouble – the ones they’ve had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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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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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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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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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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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 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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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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