H. G. Wells Quotes

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H. G. Wells

Profession : Author

Birth : September 21, 1866

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.

H. G. Wells

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.

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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.

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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.

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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.

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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

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The past is but the past of a beginning.

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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.

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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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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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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?

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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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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.

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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.

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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.

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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

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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.

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Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.

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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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