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…

Quote by H G Wells

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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...

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

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

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

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...

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

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

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

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 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.

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...

Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the...

Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the...

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

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

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.

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish...

There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish...

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

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

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

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...

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international...

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international...