H. G. Wells Quotes
How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem at a distance of a few million miles.
Quotes to Explore
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.
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I would not drink bottles of water at my mom's house because I never knew how long she'd been refilling them from the sink and putting them back in the refrigerator.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
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Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
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Fighting, I guess, was never the real reason I read comic books as a kid. The fighting was an important part, an integral part of it; I don't know I would've read it without it.
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In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.
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Let the path be open to talent.
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I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.
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You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
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I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.
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Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.
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If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertainment.
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It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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There is no Polish culture without Jewish culture.
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I come from a family that does not believe in art to this day. They think art is vanity.
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When taking a photo, I tend to look for one of the following: depth, symmetry, color or contrast. All of those things catch my eye to the point where I stop dead in my tracks to capture whatever it is that I've seen.
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There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.
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I think people seem to want to read pieces that are shorter but not as short as the pieces they can read in small bites on the Internet. It may be that the sort of long essays are hitting a sweet spot between the tiny morsels online and the full-length book.
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How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem at a distance of a few million miles.
