H. G. Wells Quotes
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Man is an imperfect animal and never quite trustworthy in the dark.
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By this time I was no longer very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed the limit of terror and despair. I felt now that my life was practically lost, and that persuasion made me capable of daring anything
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Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.
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I am for world-control of production and of trade and transport, for a world coinage, and the confederation of mankind. I am for the super-State.
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There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven. There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever is more than animal within us must find its solace and its hope.
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Our challenge is not to educate the children we used to have or want to have, but to educate the children who come to the schoolhouse door.
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once you lose yourself, you have two choices: find the person you used to be, or lose that person completely.
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The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.
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Everywhere in the world there are ignorance and prejudice, but the greatest complex of these, with the most extensive prestige and the most intimate entanglement with traditional institutions, is the Roman Catholic Church.
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For crude classifications and false generalisations are the curse of all organised human life.
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Christ is the most unique person of history. No man can write a history of the human race without giving first and foremost place to the penniless Teacher of Nazareth.
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And this Thing I saw! How can I describe it? A monstrous tripod, higher than many houses, striding over the young pine trees, and smashing them aside in its career; a walking engine of glittering metal, striding now across the heather; articulate ropes of steel dangling from it, and the clattering tumult of its passage mingling with the riot of the thunder.
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New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises 'Why then are you not taking part in them?
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Since the passing of Victoria the Great there had been an accumulating uneasiness in the national life. It was as if some compact and dignified paper-weight had been lifted from people's ideas, and as if at once they had begun to blow about anyhow.
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In all the round world there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses.
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Room to swing a cat, it seemed was absolutely essential. It was an infrequent but indispensable operation.
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The too perfect security of the Upper-worlders had led them to a slow movement of degeneration, a general dwindling in size, strength, and intelligence.
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This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.