H. G. Wells Quotes
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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The character of the Open Conspiracy [the movement towards a world collective] will now be plainly displayed. It will have become a great world movement as widespread and evident as socialism or communism. It will largely have taken the place of these movements. It will be more, it will be a world religion.
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There is no more evil thing in this world than race prejudice, none at all. [...] It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty, and abomination than any other sort of error in the world.
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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
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Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
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While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there.
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Great and little cannot understand one another. But in every child born of man, Father Redwood, lurks some seed of greatness - waiting for the Food.
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Rowena: I don’t suppose any man has ever understood any woman since the beginning of things. You don’t understand our imaginations, how wild our imaginations can be.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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Be a man!... What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have done before to men! Did you think that God had exempted [us]? He is not an insurance agent.
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We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.
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A strange persuasion came upon me that, save for the grossness of the line, the grotesqueness of the forms, I had here before me the whole balance of human life in miniature, the whole interplay of instinct, reason, and fate in its simplest form.
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Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
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About two-thirds of the face of Marx is beard, a vast solemn wooly uneventful beard that must have made all normal exercise impossible. It is not the sort of beard that happens to a man, it is a beard cultivated, cherished, and thrust patriarchally upon the world.
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The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.
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When she was fifteen if you'd told her that when she was twenty she'd be going to bed with bald-headed men and liking it, she would have thought you very abstract.
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You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel-a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work was done, my mind has been a whirlpool, swift, unprogressive and incessant, a torrent of thoughts leading nowhere, spinning round swift and steady.