It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
H. G. WELLSAfter people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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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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Our true nationality is mankind.
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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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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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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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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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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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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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