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Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.

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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.

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There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess.

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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

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We were not making war against Germany, we were being ordered about in the King's war with Germany.

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I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd.

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We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable.

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It's against reason," said Filby. "What reason?" said the Time Traveller.

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I doubt if these two fine, active minds [President and Mrs. Roosevelt] have ever inquiried how it is they know what they know and think as they do. Nor have they ever thought of what they might have been if they had grown up in an entirely different culture. They have the disposition of all politicians world over to deal only with made opinion. They have never inquired how it is that opinion is made.

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

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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

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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.

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Man ... can go up against gravitation in a balloon, and why should he not hope that ultimately he may be able to stop or accelerate his drift along the Time-Dimension, or even turn about and travel the other way.

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If the world does not please you, you can change it.

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Everyone leaves the world a little better some by leaving.

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Let us get together with other people of our sort and make over the world into a great world-civilization that will enable us to realize the promises and avoid the dangers of this new time.

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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.

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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

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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.

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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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