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The past is but the past of a beginning.

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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Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Sociologist
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Bromley
London
Wells
Herbert George
Herbert George Wells
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If we don't end war, war will end us.
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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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States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs.
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While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
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I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world
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