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.
H. G. WELLSH. G. Wells Quotes
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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.
H. G. WELLS
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
H. G. WELLS
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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.
H. G. WELLS
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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
H. G. WELLS
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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
H. G. WELLS
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
H. G. WELLS
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
H. G. WELLS
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
H. G. WELLS