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H. G. Wells
Age: 79 †
Born: 1866
Born: January 1
Died: 1946
Died: January 1
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A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.
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In the middle years of the nineteenth century there first became abundant in this strange world of ours a class of men, men tending for the most part to become elderly, who are called, and who are very properly called, but who dislike extremely to be called--Scientists.
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Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me.
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Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write!
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I do not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the Lady Vain.
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No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's document.
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We live in a world of unused and misapplied knowledge and skill.
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Every one of these hundreds of millions of human beings is in some form seeking happiness.... Not one is altogether noble nor altogether trustworthy nor altogether consistent and not one is altogether vile.... Not a single one but has at some time wept.
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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.
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I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd.
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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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There is no remorse like the remorse of Chess
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By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers it would still be his were the Martians ten times as mighty as they are. For neither do men live nor die in vain.
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Marriage isn't what it was. It's become a different thing because women have become human beings.
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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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By this time I was no longer very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed the limit of terror and despair. I felt now that my life was practically lost, and that persuasion made me capable of daring anything
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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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It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.
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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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Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.
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