H. G. Wells Quotes, Cities Quotes, Wind Quotes

And all over the countryside, he knew, on every crest and hill, where once the hedges had interlaced, and cottages, churches, inns, and farmhouses had nestled among their trees, wind wheels similar to those he saw and bearing like vast advertisements, gaunt and distinctive symbols of the new age, cast their whirling shadows and stored incessantly the energy that flowed away incessantly through all the arteries of the city. ... The great circular shapes of complaining wind-wheels blotted out the heavens.

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Arson, after all, is an artificial crime...A large number of houses deserve to be burnt.

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Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.

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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.

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A time will come when men will sit with history before them or with some old newspaper before them and ask incredulously,"Was there ever such a world?"

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Go away. I'm all right. [last words]

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The third peculiarity of aerial warfare was that it was at once enormously destructive and entirely indecisive.

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Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.

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We will peck them to death to-morrow, my dear.

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A day will come when beings, now latent in our thoughts and hidden in our loins, shall stand upon Earth as a footstool and laugh, and reach out their hands amidst the stars.

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The army ages men sooner than the law and philosophy; it exposes them more freely to germs, which undermine and destroy, and it shelters them more completely from thought, which stimulates and preserves.

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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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The true sweetness of chess, if it ever can be sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out of the shadow of apparently irrevocable disaster.

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I do not believe I have any immortality. The greatest evil in the world today is the Christian religion

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Only people who are well off can be - complex.

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It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.

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... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it becomes an efficient and beneficent world system. Countless people ... will hate the New World Order and will die protesting against it. When we attempt to evaluate its promise, we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents, many of them quite gallant and graceful-looking people.

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Very much indeed of what we call moral education is such an artificial modification and perversion of instinct; pugnacity is trained into courageous self-sacrifice, and suppressed sexuality into religious emotion.

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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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The religion of the atheist has a God-shaped blank at it's heart.

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