After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

Quote by H G Wells

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Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does...

Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does...

She writes like a loom, producing her broad rich fabric with hardly a thought of...

She writes like a loom, producing her broad rich fabric with hardly a thought of...

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything...

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything...

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

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

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

Our true nationality is mankind.

Our true nationality is mankind.

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of...

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of...

Advertising is legalized lying.

Advertising is legalized lying.

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

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

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

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

The past is but the past of a beginning.

The past is but the past of a beginning.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it...

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it...

We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black,...

We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black,...

Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school,...

Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school,...