H. G. Wells
Quotations
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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.” -H. G. Wells
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“Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.” -H. G. Wells
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“A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own.” -H. G. Wells
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“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.” -H. G. Wells
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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.” -H. G. Wells
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“Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober not to make us sorry but wise.” -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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“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.” -H. G. Wells
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“A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own.” -H. G. Wells
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“Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.” -H. G. Wells
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“Human history in essence is the history of ideas.” -H. G. Wells
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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.” -H. G. Wells
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“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.” -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.” -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.” -H. G. Wells
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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.” -H. G. Wells
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“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.” -H. G. Wells
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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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“No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.” -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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