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.
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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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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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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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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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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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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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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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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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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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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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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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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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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