H. G. Wells Quotes
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I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.
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I always played to win.
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I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.
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A great painting is a great painting.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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A weightlifter should be able to do everything and borrow things from other sports to beat competitors.
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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
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But there will come a time and a place to give back, and each individual will recognize that time and place.
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Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.
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We recognize that the arts are an essential part of San Francisco's cultural vitality.
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We expect 'Narcos' will be an enormous success throughout everywhere in the world and maybe out-index in Latin America, given the Brazilian star and Brazilian director and heavy Latin American cast and that we shot the show entirely on location in Colombia.
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I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.
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My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
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I'm a writer more than I am a talker.
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There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.
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I really am a woman at peace.
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I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
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Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
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The ability to make new work from old work - especially if that new work is different enough that it doesn't dent the market for the old work - is something that benefits all creators, since so few can claim not to have a giant or 10 supporting them underneath.
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Depending on what happens with my directing career, I don't think I'll stop writing, even if I crash and burn in movies and TV. I'll go back to plays. Even if I crash and burn there, I'll write a novel. That's the great thing about writing is that you don't have to wait for people to give you permission to do it.
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Bridges would not be safer if only people who knew the proper definition of a real number were allowed to design them.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
