“Advertising is legalized lying.”
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“Cynicism is humor in ill health.”
HealthAll Quotes by H. G. Wells
“Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.”
Beauty“In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.”
Best“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”
Education“Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober not to make us sorry but wise.”
Sad“I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.”
Imagination“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.”
War“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.”
Education“Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.”
Truth“Cynicism is humor in ill health.”
Health“If we don't end war, war will end us.”
War“Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.”
Knowledge“Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.”
Funny“I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.”
Time“Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.”
Failure“After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.”
Great“History is a race between education and catastrophe.”
Education“Human history in essence is the history of ideas.”
History“Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.”
Jealousy“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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