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H G Wells Quotes

After telephone, kinematograph and phonograph had replaced newspaper, book schoolmaster and letter, to live outside the range of the electric cables was to live an isolated savage Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven Picture Quote #1

It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning Picture Quote #1

I went over the heads of the things a man reckons desirable. No doubt invisibility made it possible to get them, but it made it impossible to enjoy them when they are got Picture Quote #1

You must follow me carefully. I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted. The geometry, for instance, they taught you at school is founded on a misconception Picture Quote #1

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In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activity Picture Quote #1

The cat, which is a solitary beast, is single minded and goes its way alone, but, the dog, like his master, is confused in his mind Picture Quote #1

There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess Picture Quote #1

Endless conflicts. Endless misunderstanding. All life is that. Great and little cannot understand one another Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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A downtrodden class... will never be able to make an effective protest until it achieves solidarity Picture Quote #1

Our challenge is not to educate the children we used to have or want to have, but to educate the children who come to the schoolhouse door Picture Quote #1

Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break Picture Quote #1

Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart Picture Quote #1

For all my desire to be interesting, I have to confess that for most things and people I don’t give a damn Picture Quote #1

London,... like a bowl of viscid human fluid, boils sullenly over the rim of its encircling hills and slops messily into the home counties Picture Quote #1

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I don’t suppose any man has ever understood any woman since the beginning of things. You don’t understand our imaginations, how wild our imaginations can be Picture Quote #1

This little upset across the water doesn’t mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur Picture Quote #1

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive ‘policies’ and ‘Plans’ of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word ‘socialism’, but what else can one call it? Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

We can’t have any weak or silly. Life is real again, and the useless and cumbersome and mischievous have to die. They ought to die. They ought to be willing to die. It’s a sort of disloyalty, after all, to live and taint the race Picture Quote #1

Here lies a toppled God. His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedestal, A narrow and a tall one Picture Quote #1

Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never died, fretted by a law they could not understand; their mock-human existence began in an agony, was one long internal struggle, one long dread of Moreau - and for what? It was the wantonness that stirred me Picture Quote #1

Be a man!... What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have done before to men! Did you think that God had exempted [us]? He is not an insurance agent Picture Quote #1

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After telephone, kinematograph and phonograph had replaced newspaper, book schoolmaster and letter, to live outside the range of the electric cables was to live an isolated savage (H G Wells Quotes) 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 (H G Wells Quotes) There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven (H G Wells Quotes) It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning (H G Wells Quotes) I went over the heads of the things a man reckons desirable. No doubt invisibility made it possible to get them, but it made it impossible to enjoy them when they are got (H G Wells Quotes) You must follow me carefully. I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted. The geometry, for instance, they taught you at school is founded on a misconception (H G Wells Quotes) In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activity (H G Wells Quotes) The cat, which is a solitary beast, is single minded and goes its way alone, but, the dog, like his master, is confused in his mind (H G Wells Quotes) There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess (H G Wells Quotes) Endless conflicts. Endless misunderstanding. All life is that. Great and little cannot understand one another (H G Wells Quotes) 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 (H G Wells Quotes) 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 (H G Wells Quotes) A downtrodden class... will never be able to make an effective protest until it achieves solidarity (H G Wells Quotes) Our challenge is not to educate the children we used to have or want to have, but to educate the children who come to the schoolhouse door (H G Wells Quotes) Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break (H G Wells Quotes) Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart (H G Wells Quotes) For all my desire to be interesting, I have to confess that for most things and people I don’t give a damn (H G Wells Quotes) London,... like a bowl of viscid human fluid, boils sullenly over the rim of its encircling hills and slops messily into the home counties (H G Wells Quotes) I don’t suppose any man has ever understood any woman since the beginning of things. You don’t understand our imaginations, how wild our imaginations can be (H G Wells Quotes) This little upset across the water doesn’t mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur (H G Wells Quotes) I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea (H G Wells Quotes) 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 (H G Wells Quotes) We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries (H G Wells Quotes) 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 (H G Wells Quotes) The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive ‘policies’ and ‘Plans’ of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word ‘socialism’, but what else can one call it? (H G Wells Quotes) 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 (H G Wells Quotes) We can’t have any weak or silly. Life is real again, and the useless and cumbersome and mischievous have to die. They ought to die. They ought to be willing to die. It’s a sort of disloyalty, after all, to live and taint the race (H G Wells Quotes) Here lies a toppled God. His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedestal, A narrow and a tall one (H G Wells Quotes) Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never died, fretted by a law they could not understand; their mock-human existence began in an agony, was one long internal struggle, one long dread of Moreau - and for what? It was the wantonness that stirred me (H G Wells Quotes) Be a man!... What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have done before to men! Did you think that God had exempted [us]? He is not an insurance agent (H G Wells Quotes)

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