Wells, H.G.
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Wells, H.G.
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature s inexorable imperative.
Wells, H.G.
Change
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.
Wells, H.G.
Economy and Economics
Cynicism is humor in ill health.
Wells, H.G.
Cynics and Cynicism
Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
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Crime and Criminals
It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening.
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Future
He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.
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Patriotism
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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History and Historians
Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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History and Historians
Go away...I m alright.
Wells, H.G.
Famous Last Words
The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
Wells, H.G.
Getting Ahead
History is a race between education and catastrophe.
Wells, H.G.
History and Historians
Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
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Humankind
Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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Evolution
The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
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Success
I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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Time and Time Management
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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Morality
The crisis of yesterday is the joke of tomorrow.
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Tomorrow
Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.
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Research
In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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Reform
Go away, I m all right!
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Solitude
There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
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Ugliness
There comes a moment in the day when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your correspondence in the afternoon, and have nothing further to do. Then comes that hour when you are bored; that s the time for sex.
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Sex
Our true nationality is mankind.
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Race and Racism
The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
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Heaven
Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia.
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Bicycles
Advertising is legalized lying.
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Advertising
One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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Goodness
Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
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Adversity