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H G Wells Inspirational Quotes (185)

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Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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One believes in Stephen Dedalus as one believes in few characters in fiction.
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We must end war before war ends us.
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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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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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We live in a world of unused and misapplied knowledge and skill.
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How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem, at a distance of a few million miles.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart.
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You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic, clumsy and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess.
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A downtrodden class... will never be able to make an effective protest until it achieves solidarity.
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The new century will see changes that will dwarf those of the last.
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I went over the heads of the things a man reckons desirable. No doubt invisibility made it possible to get them, but it made it impossible to enjoy them when they are got.
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If Max [Aitken] gets to Heaven he won't last long. He will be chucked out for trying to pull off a merger between Heaven and Hell ... after having secured a controlling interest in key subsidiary companies in both places, of course.
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Face this world. Learn its ways, watch it, be careful of too hasty guesses at its meaning. In the end you will find clues to it all.
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The choice is: the Universe...or nothing.
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It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening.
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Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.
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I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd.
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The Jews looked for a special savior, a messiah, who was to redeem mankind by the agreeable process of restoring the fabulous glories of David and Solomon, and bringing the whole world at last under the firm but benevolent Jewish heel.
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The establishment of the world community will surely exact a price – and who can tell what that price may be? – in toil, suffering and blood.
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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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