Science stands, a too competant servant, behind her wrangling underbred masters, holding out resources, devices, and remedies they are too stupid to use. And on its material side, a modern Utopia must needs present these gifts as taken.
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Aphorisms by Herbert George Wells
He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.
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And in the air are no streets, no channels, no point where one can say of an antagonist, "If he wants to reach my capital he must come by here." In the air all directions lead everywhere.
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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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Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum.
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The crisis of yesterday is the joke of tomorrow.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
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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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The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling.
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