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H G Wells Inspirational Quotes (185)

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A time will come when men will sit with history before them or with some old newspaper before them and ask incredulously,Was there ever such a world?
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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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The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves for the general Good. Lies are the mortar that bind the savage individual man into the social masonry.
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There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess.
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Life, forever dying to be born afresh, forever young and eager, will presently stand upon this Earth as upon a footstool, and stretch out its realm amidst the stars.
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He who does not contemplate the future is destined to be overwhelmed by it.
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I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled up attitude in a chair or sofa, while I wandered over the hills and far away in novel company and new scenes... My world began to expand very rapidly,... the reading habit had got me securely.
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It is the system of nationalist individualism that has to go....We are living in the end of the sovereign states....In the great struggle to evoke a Westernized World Socialism, contemporary governments may vanish....Countless people...will hate the new world order....and will die protesting against it.
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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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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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The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.
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Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum.
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Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.
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I don't think you fully appreciate the importance of Illusion in life, the Essential Nature of Lies and Deception of the body politic.
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The War That Will End War.
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No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's document.
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Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.
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You are not mechanics, you are warriors. You have been trained, not to think, but to do.
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It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.
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Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write!
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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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The third peculiarity of aerial warfare was that it was at once enormously destructive and entirely indecisive.
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Let us get together with other people of our sort and make over the world into a great world-civilization that will enable us to realize the promises and avoid the dangers of this new time.
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