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H. G. Wells
Age: 79 †
Born: 1866
Born: January 1
Died: 1946
Died: January 1
Historian
Idist
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Sociologist
Writer
Bromley
London
Wells
Herbert George
Herbert George 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.
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If we don't end war, war will end us.
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The lawgiver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance. He of all men should behave as though the law compelled him. But it is the universal weakness of mankind that what we are given to administer we presently imagine we own.
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Religions are such stuff as dreams are made of.
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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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Will is stronger than fact: it can mold and overcome fact.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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We can't have any weak or silly. Life is real again, and the useless and cumbersome and mischievous have to die. They ought to die. They ought to be willing to die. It's a sort of disloyalty, after all, to live and taint the race.
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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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Cycle trails will abound in Utopia.
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Room to swing a cat, it seemed was absolutely essential. It was an infrequent but indispensable operation.
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Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.
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Hinduism is synonymous with humanism. That is its essence and its great liberating quality.
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Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election.
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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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States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs.
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Bah! The thing is not a nose at all, but a bit of primordial chaos clapped on to my face.
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The German people are an orderly, vain, deeply sentimental and rather insensitive people. They seem to feel at their best when they are singing in chorus, saluting or obeying orders.
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If all the animals and man had been evolved in this ascendant manner, then there had been no first parents, no Eden, and no Fall. And if there had been no fall, then the entire historical fabric of Christianity, the story of the first sin and the reason for an atonement ... collapsed like a house of cards.
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This is the end and the beginning of an age. This is something far greater than the French Revolution or the Reformation and we live in it.
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