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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
H. G. Wells
Cynicism is humour in ill health.
H. G. Wells
Our true nationality is mankind.
H. G. Wells
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
H. G. Wells
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. Wells
Advertising is legalized lying.
H. G. Wells
We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.
H. G. Wells
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
H. G. Wells
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
H. G. Wells
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.
H. G. Wells
Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.
H. G. Wells
There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
H. G. Wells
The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
H. G. Wells
The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.
H. G. Wells
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
Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
H. G. Wells
Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
H. G. Wells
One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
H. G. Wells
I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
H. G. Wells
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.
H. G. Wells
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.
H. G. Wells
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
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