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H. G. Wells
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H. G. Wells
Age: 79 †
Born: 1866
Born: January 1
Died: 1946
Died: January 1
Historian
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Science Fiction Writer
Sociologist
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Bromley
London
Wells
Herbert George
Herbert George Wells
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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 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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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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Endless conflicts. Endless misunderstanding. All life is that. Great and little cannot understand one another.
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If anything is possible, then nothing is interesting
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The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.
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Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me.
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But-! I say! The common conventions of humanity-' 'Are all very well for common people.
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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 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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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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What good is religion if it collapses under calamity?
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The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.
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There is space in its philosophy for everyone which is one reason why India is a home to every single religion in the world.
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Strength is the outcome of need.
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The choice is: the Universe...or nothing.
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Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.
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There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be, but now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses. And it is impossible to find anyone who will hew a dead ox or pig. I can still remember as a boy the rejoicings over the closing of the last slaughterhouse.
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