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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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What good is religion if it collapses under calamity?
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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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Cycle trails will abound in Utopia.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.
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The fertilising conflict of individualities is the ultimate meaning of the personal life.
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With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure.
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He began to realize that you cannot even fight happily with creatures that stand upon a different mental basis to yourself.
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The religion of the atheist has a God-shaped blank at it's heart.
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Nothing endures, nothing is precise and certain (except the mind of a pedant), perfection is the mere repudiation of that ineluctable marginal inexactitude which is the mysterious inmost quality of Being
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It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.
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This isn't a war, said the artilleryman. It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.
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There is no more evil thing in this world than race prejudice, none at all. [...] It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty, and abomination than any other sort of error in the world.
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Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election.
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After your first day of cycling, one dream is inevitable. A memory of motion lingers in the muscles of your legs, and round and round they seem to go. You ride through Dreamland on wonderful dream bicycles that change and grow.
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Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.
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We're in a blessed drainpipe, and we've got to crawl along it till we die.
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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 world needs something stronger than any possible rebellion against its peace. In other words it needs a federal world government embodying a new conception of human life as one whole.
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