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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. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#certainly #changed #doctrine #doctrines #ever

The path of least resistance is the path of the loser. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#loser #path #resistance

What really matters is what you do with what you have. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#really #you

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

— H. G. Wells

#better #golf #law #legs #man

It is a rule in paleontology that ornamentation and complication precede extinction. And our mutation, of which the assembly line, the collective farm, the mechanized army, and the mass production of food are evidences or even symptoms, might well correspond to the thickening armor of the great reptiles—a tendency that can end only in extinction. If this should happen to be true, nothing stemming from thought can interfere with it or bend it. Conscious thought seems to have little effect on the action or direction of our species. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#farming #human-development #production #thought #war

The bourbon goes into the recipe, Miss Connor, not into you,” he’d said from directly behind me. He had a way of doing that, catching me in the act. I suppose the number of times I screwed up made me an easy mark. My spine straightened at the scolding, but my mouth did what it knew best. “Well, that’s just a waste of perfectly good bourbon if you ask me. ↗

— Jenny Lyn

#food-and-sex #humor #jenny-lyn #sarcasm #food

If someone else takes a bite of my food, I have to cut off the part that his/her saliva has touched before I can eat any more of it. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#food

China is an old nation with a colourful history. Its booming economy has triggered an appetite and a curiosity around the world for its art and culture, one that continues to grow. I can, however, tell people that it is a show with no actor. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#appetite #around #art #booming #china

The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it? ↗

— H. G. Wells

#america #attempt #avert #call #collapse

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

— H. G. Wells

#feels #first #had #learned #lost