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Idist Inspirational Quotes (198)

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Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.
H. G. Wells
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You are not mechanics, you are warriors. You have been trained, not to think, but to do.
H. G. Wells
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It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.
H. G. Wells
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Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write!
H. G. Wells
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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.
H. G. Wells
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The individual organs follow the same pattern as the whole organism, i.e. they have their period of growth, of stationary, maximum activity and then of aging decline.
Wilhelm Ostwald
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The third peculiarity of aerial warfare was that it was at once enormously destructive and entirely indecisive.
H. G. Wells
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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.
H. G. Wells
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Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me.
H. G. Wells
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
H. G. Wells
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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.
H. G. Wells
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One believes in Stephen Dedalus as one believes in few characters in fiction.
H. G. Wells
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We must end war before war ends us.
H. G. Wells
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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?
H. G. Wells
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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.
H. G. Wells
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We live in a world of unused and misapplied knowledge and skill.
H. G. Wells
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How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem, at a distance of a few million miles.
H. G. Wells
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
H. G. Wells
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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.
H. G. Wells
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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.
H. G. Wells
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For, with pure water the inversion of cane sugar scarcely proceeds and subsequently it required very thorough, difficult studies before this effect and its order of magnitude were established.
Wilhelm Ostwald
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A downtrodden class... will never be able to make an effective protest until it achieves solidarity.
H. G. Wells
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The new century will see changes that will dwarf those of the last.
H. G. Wells
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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.
H. G. Wells
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