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Quotes by H. G. Wells
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
If we don't end war, war will end us.
The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?
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.
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.
The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
Advertising is legalized lying.
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.
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.
Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
Our true nationality is mankind.
After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.
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.
The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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