H. G. Wells Quotes, Lying Quotes, Believe Quotes

I believe that now and always the conscious selection of the best for reproduction will be impossible; that to propose it is to display a fundamental misunderstanding of what individuality implies. The way of nature has always been to slay the hindmost, and there is still no other way, unless we can prevent those who would become the hindmost being born. It is in the sterilization of failure, and not in the selection of successes for breeding, that the possibility of an improvement of the human stock lies.

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I don't think you fully appreciate the importance of Illusion in life, the Essential Nature of Lies and Deception of the body politic.

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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

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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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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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The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.

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The man who raises a fist has run out of ideas.

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What good is religion if it collapses under calamity?

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No. I cannot expect you to believe it. Take it as a lie--or a prophecy. Say I dreamed it in the workshop. Consider I have been speculating upon the destinies of our race until I have hatched this fiction. Treat my assertion of its truth as a mere stroke of art to enhance its interest. And taking it as a story, what do you think of it?

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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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It is only now and then, in a jungle, or amidst the towering white menace of a burnt or burning Australian forest, that Nature strips the moral veils from vegetation and we apprehend its stark ferocity.

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The weaving of mankind into one community does not imply the creation of a homogeneous community, but rather the reverse; the welcome and adequate utilization of distinctive quality in an atmosphere of understanding.... Communities all to one pattern, like boxes of toy soldiers, are things of the past, rather than of the future.

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Books-bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.

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I don't suppose any man has ever understood any woman since the beginning of things. You don't understand our imaginations, how wild our imaginations can be.

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Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.

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The art of ignoring is one of the accomplishments of every well-bred girl, so carefully instilled that at last she can even ignore her own thoughts and her own knowledge.

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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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Socialism is the preparation for that higher Anarchism; painfully, laboriously we mean to destroy false ideas of property and self, eliminate unjust laws and poisonous and hateful suggestions and prejudices, create a system of social right-dealing and a tradition of right-feeling and action. Socialism is the schoolroom of true and noble Anarchism, wherein by training and restraint we shall make free men.

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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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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

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