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

Quote by H G Wells

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

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

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

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

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...

Advertising is legalized lying.

Advertising is legalized lying.

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done...

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done...

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or...

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or...

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

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

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...

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges...

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges...

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...

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

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.

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

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

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

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is...

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is...

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them...

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them...

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual...

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual...

What use is it to endure the Dutch Rubs and Indian Rope Burns that are...

What use is it to endure the Dutch Rubs and Indian Rope Burns that are...