66 ordspråk av H. G. Wells
H. G. Wells
The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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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.
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The history of India for many centuries had been happier, less fierce, and more dreamlike than any other history. In these favorable conditions, they built a character - meditative and peaceful and a nation of philosophers such as could nowhere have existed except in India.
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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.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.
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The shape of things to come.
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The third peculiarity of aerial warfare was that it was at once enormously destruction and entirely indecisive.
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The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf-it's almost a law.
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There comes a moment in the day when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your correspondence in the afternoon, and have nothing further to do. Then comes that hour when you are bored; that's the time for sex.
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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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