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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In your 40s, you kind of know how things are likely to go, and you're better at saying, 'You know what? That just doesn't suit me...' I remember thinking in my 30s, 'I should go to Burning Man. I could be a Burning Man person.' And in my 40s, I'm like, 'You know what? I'm never going to go to Burning Man.'
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At 17, I went away to Pau in the south of France for a few months to study domestic science - including cleaning windows with newspaper and water - while living with a Catholic family with 10 children.
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People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.
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For the modern physicist, reality is the whole thing, past and future joined in a single history. The sensation of now is just that, a sensation, and different for everyone. Instead of one master clock, we have clocks in multitudes.
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I've been reaching out to voters across the political spectrum from the very beginning.
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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.
