H. G. Wells Quotes
By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers; it would still be his were the Martians ten times as mighty as they are. For neither do men live nor die in vain.
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I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.
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The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.
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Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.
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The economy is not immutable; it's not about natural laws. It's about rules, and we make the rules.
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I certainly didn't reach out to my old assets and ask 'em how they're doing, although I would have liked to.
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I'm really about my family and really proud of being a Carter.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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It is true that when there's a drone attack, those - that the - the terrorists are killed, it's true. But 500 and 5,000 more people rises against it, and more terrorism occurs, and more - more bomb blasts occurs.
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Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.
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I lost 80 percent of my wealth and then gave away over half of the rest. So I'm a man of modest means now. But if you budget carefully and watch your expenditures, you can get by on a couple billion dollars.
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I could write and help a lot of kids, or teach and help a few and go nuts.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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When we cover a Chainsmokers song in our live show with ZBB, people are dancing and going crazy.
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We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.
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I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.
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The ultimate mystery is one's own self.
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Moving from corporate banking to retail banking to international banking to supervisory roles has meant completely reinventing myself.
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I'm great at dishwashing.
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Bad people are intriguing!
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There is nothing worse than a politician that gets defensive and starts attacking the media - and it always looks bad for the politician, because you sign up for this. You live by the sword, you die by the sword.
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The idea of not being able to control my own fertility genuinely terrifies me. That one mistake might change your life. That everything I am, and do, could be ended by the repeal of laws our mothers fought so hard for, that women had waited for the entire span of humanity to come about.
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By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers; it would still be his were the Martians ten times as mighty as they are. For neither do men live nor die in vain.
