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H. G. Wells Quotes (53)
"If you fell down yesterday, stand up today."
— h-g-wells"If we don't end war, war will end us."
— h-g-wells"Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise."
— h-g-wells"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race."
— h-g-wells"The path of least resistance is the path of the loser."
— h-g-wells"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."
— h-g-wells"What really matters is what you do with what you have."
— h-g-wells"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."
— h-g-wells"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."
— h-g-wells"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative."
— h-g-wells"History is a race between education and catastrophe."
— h-g-wells"The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn."
— h-g-wells"Beauty is in the heart of the beholder."
— h-g-wells"I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea."
— h-g-wells"Our true nationality is mankind."
— h-g-wells"Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit."
— h-g-wells"The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow."
— h-g-wells"Human history in essence is the history of ideas."
— h-g-wells"The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law."
— h-g-wells"One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good."
— h-g-wells"The past is but the past of a beginning."
— h-g-wells"Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge."
— h-g-wells"No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft."
— h-g-wells"It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own."
— h-g-wells"I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own."
— h-g-wells"Advertising is legalized lying."
— h-g-wells"Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community."
— h-g-wells"After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true."
— h-g-wells"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"The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought."
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