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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

Politics, Play, Cards, Best Way

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

Education, Living, Half-Way, Centuries

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

Nature, More, Unnatural, Rebel

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

- H. G. Wells

Funny, Bicycle, Race, Adult

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.

- H. G. Wells

Ugly, Nothing, Devices, Bridges

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

- H. G. Wells

Lit, Should, Far, Choke

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

- H. G. Wells

Beauty, Heart, Beholder

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

Success Is, Other, Been, Ratio

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?

- H. G. Wells

Achieve, Deal, Policies, Parallel

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

- H. G. Wells

Today, Tomorrow, Crisis, Joke

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

- H. G. Wells

Motivational, Today, Fell, Stand Up

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

- H. G. Wells

Truth, Search, Experiments, Unsatisfied

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

- H. G. Wells

Sad, Wise, Sorry, Affliction

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

War, Blind, Armies, Contending

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.

- H. G. Wells

Through, Been, Cheerfulness, Cheerful

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.

- H. G. Wells

Sports, Golf, Better, Uglier

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.

- H. G. Wells

Fifty, England, Come, Intervening

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

Own, Private, Reasonable, International

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

- H. G. Wells

Never, Comfortable, More, Sailors

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

Teacher, Which, Certainly, Changed

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

- H. G. Wells

Nature, Ever, Perish, Inexorable

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

Doing, Suffocating, Refuses, Submarine

Our true nationality is mankind.

- H. G. Wells

True, Mankind, Our, Nationality

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

Measure, Bad, Lives, In The End

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

- H. G. Wells

Education, History, Race, Human History

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

- H. G. Wells

Essence, The History Of, Human History

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

- H. G. Wells

Jealousy, Moral, Halo, Indignation

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

- H. G. Wells

World, Surely, Our World, Wildness

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

- H. G. Wells

Communication, World, Equal, Draft

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

- H. G. Wells

Trouble, Some, Expect, Bear

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