H. G. Wells Quotes
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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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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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The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.
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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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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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The weaving of mankind into one community does not imply the creation of a homogeneous community, but rather the reverse; the welcome and adequate utilization of distinctive quality in an atmosphere of understanding... Communities all to one pattern, like boxes of toy soldiers, are things of the past, rather than of the future.
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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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I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the very center of history. Jesus Christ is easily the most dominant figure in all history.
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A biography should be a dissection and demonstration of how a particular human being was made and worked.
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An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.
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If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.
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The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling.
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Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never died, fretted by a law they could not understand; their mock-human existence began in an agony, was one long internal struggle, one long dread of Moreau - and for what? It was the wantonness that stirred me.
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The Boss: The State’s your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies that by word or deed.
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Find the thing you want to do most intensely, make sure that’s it, and do it with all your might. If you live, well and good. If you die, well and good. Your purpose is done
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I do not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the "Lady Vain."
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If we do not end war - war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does anything.
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I was never a great amorist, though I have loved several people very deeply.
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He spares no resource in telling of his dead inventions... Bare verbs he rarely tolerates. He splits infinitives and fills them up with adverbial stuffing. He presses the passing colloquialism into his service. His vast paragraphis sweat and struggle; the
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Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness. The work of ameliorating the conditions of life -- the true civilizing process that makes life more and more secure -- had gone steadily on to a climax... And the harvest was what I saw.
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The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.
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Alone-- it is wonderful how little a man can do alone! To rob a little, to hurt a little, and there is the end.
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This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.
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Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.