H. G. Wells Quotes, War Quotes

The War That Will End War.

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If there is no God, nothing matters. If there is a God, nothing else matters.

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What good is religion if it collapses under calamity?

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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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once you lose yourself, you have two choices: find the person you used to be, or lose that person completely.

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The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.

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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.

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... life falls into place only with God.

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By this time I was no longer very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed the limit of terror and despair. I felt now that my life was practically lost, and that persuasion made me capable of daring anything

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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.

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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

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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.

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...instead of offering me a Garibaldi biscuit, she asked me with that faint lisp of hers, to 'have some squashed flies, George'.

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All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.

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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

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Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness. The work of ameliorating the conditions of life -- the true civilizing process that makes life more and more secure -- had gone steadily on to a climax... And the harvest was what I saw.

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Only people who are well off can be - complex.

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In all ages, far back into prehistory, we find human beings have painted and adorned themselves.

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But there are times when the little cloud spreads, until it obscures the sky. And those times I look around at my fellow men and I am reminded of some likeness of the beast-people, and I feel as though the animal is surging up in them. And I know they are neither wholly animal nor holy man, but an unstable combination of both.

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Anthropology has been compared to a great region, marked out indeed as within the sphere of influence of science, but unsettled and for the most part unsubdued. Like all such hinterland sciences, it is a happy hunting-ground for adventurers.

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