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If you do not want to explore an egoism you should not read autobiography.

H. G. Wells

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H. G. Wells
Age: 79 †
Born: 1866
Born: January 1
Died: 1946
Died: January 1
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London
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All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.
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Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.
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If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.
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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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I often think we do not take this business of photography in a sufficiently serious spirit. Issuing a photograph is like marriage: you can only undo the mischief with infinite woe.
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You Americans have the loveliest wine in the world, you know, but you don't realize it. You call them domestic and that's enough to start trouble anywhere.
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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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We must end war before war ends us.
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Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.
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Sometimes, you have to step outside of the person you've been and remember the person you were meant to be. The person you want to be. The person you are.
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Will is stronger than fact: it can mold and overcome fact.
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If Max [Aitken] gets to Heaven he won't last long. He will be chucked out for trying to pull off a merger between Heaven and Hell ... after having secured a controlling interest in key subsidiary companies in both places, of course.
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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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...fact takes no heed of human hopes.
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When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.
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Religions are such stuff as dreams are made of.
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Christ is the most unique person of history. No man can write a history of the human race without giving first and foremost place to the penniless Teacher of Nazareth.
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