H. G. Wells Quotes
The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
Quotes to Explore
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Even as a kid, I read 'Jung – Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge thing for me.
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We would betray Mexicans' hopes for change if we felt satisfied with what we've accomplished so far.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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It's a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.
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I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Social Security. If I were afraid of going after entitlements, I wouldn't have done that, I wouldn't have put Medicaid reform in this budget, I wouldn't have called for the reductions in spending, which people will scream about, but I think are necessary.
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Leaders cannot work in a vacuum. They may take on larger, seemingly more important roles in an organization, but this does not exclude them from asking for and using feedback. In fact, a leader arguably needs feedback more so than anyone else. It's what helps a leader respond appropriately to events in pursuit of successful outcomes.
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Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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I want to have a career in 10, 20 years, so it's harder now, and maybe more stressful now, but in the future, hopefully it will all pay off.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
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North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
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For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.
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There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.
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I wish I was a little more gregarious and outgoing.
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Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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Let's have some new cliches.
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Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop.
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There are some things I keep sacred. My middle name. Who I sleep with. And what kind of hand moisturizer I use.
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If a writer doesn't do anything but give a new word to his language and, from there, maybe to other languages, I think that writer redefines the world.
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It began to dawn on me that perhaps my country needed me more at home than overseas.
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There are plenty of writers, past and present, from Shakespeare to Henry James to Lydia Davis, who test the limits of coherence and put pressure on current notions of accessible (and acceptable) narrative methods. To thrive and change and grow, any art needs this kind of pressure.
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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
