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H G Wells Inspirational Quotes (185)

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Countless people...will hate the New World Order...and will die protesting against it...we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents.
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I write to cover a frame of ideas.
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I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing, I see everincreasing possibilities before life, and I see no limits set to it all. Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend them, swim in expectation.
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The fertilising conflict of individualities is the ultimate meaning of the personal life.
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The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action.
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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 are but phantoms ... and the phantoms of phantoms, desires like cloud-shadows and wills of straw that eddy in the wind the days pass, use and wont carry us through as a train carries the shadow of its lights.
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...instead of offering me a Garibaldi biscuit, she asked me with that faint lisp of hers, to 'have some squashed flies, George'.
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If you do not want to explore an egoism you should not read autobiography.
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There is no remorse like the remorse of Chess
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For after the Battle comes quiet.
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The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice
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By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers it would still be his were the Martians ten times as mighty as they are. For neither do men live nor die in vain.
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If we don't end war, war will end us.
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We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he is an intolerable thick-voiced blockhead who stands hectoring and blustering in our way of achievement.
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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.
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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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I was never a great amorist, though I have loved several people very deeply.
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All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.
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...fact takes no heed of human hopes.
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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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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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I hope, or I could not live.
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Go away... I'm alright.
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