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.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

Advertising is legalized lying.

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.

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

The past is but the past of a beginning.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

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.

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.

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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