H. G. Wells Quotes, Time Quotes, Velocity Quotes

We are always getting away from the present moment. Our mental existence, which are immaterial and have no dimensions, are passing along the Time-Dimension with a uniform velocity from the cradle to the grave.

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The history of mankind for the last four centuries is rather like that of an imprisoned sleeper, stirring clumsily and uneasily while the prison that restrains and shelters him catches fire, not waking but incorporating the crackling and warmth of the fire with ancient and incongruous dreams, than like that of a man consciously awake to danger and opportunity.

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Tell the truth and read story books;it will take you to the magical moment in a glory night.

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Marriage isn't what it was. It's become a different thing because women have become human beings.

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

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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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Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum.

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This World Youth movement claims to represent and affect the politico-social activities of a grand total of forty million adherents - under the age of thirty...It may play an important and increasing role in the consolidation of a new world order.

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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

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It is the going out from oneself that is love and not the accident of its return. It is the expedition, whether it fail or succeed.

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I am prepared to maintain that Honesty is essentially an anarchistic and disintegrating force in society, that communities are held together and the progress of civilization made possible only by vigorous and sometimes even, violent Lying; that the Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie and humbug themselves and one another for the general Good.

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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.

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Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough---as most wrong theories are!

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We're in a blessed drainpipe, and we've got to crawl along it till we die.

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The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice

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I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world

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I am for world-control of production and of trade and transport, for a world coinage, and the confederation of mankind. I am for the super-State.

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Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.

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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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Will is stronger than fact: it can mold and overcome fact.

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