H. G. Wells Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Dream Quotes

After your first day of cycling, one dream is inevitable. A memory of motion lingers in the muscles of your legs, and round and round they seem to go. You ride through Dreamland on wonderful dream bicycles that change and grow.

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This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.

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When she was fifteen if you'd told her that when she was twenty she'd be going to bed with bald-headed men and liking it, she would have thought you very abstract.

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Money means in a thousand minds a thousand subtly different, roughly similar, systems of images, associations, suggestions and impulses.

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The new century will see changes that will dwarf those of the last.

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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

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Fools make researches and wise men exploit them - that is our earthly way of dealing with the question, and we thank Heaven for an assumed abundance of financially impotent and sufficiently ingenious fools.

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Since the passing of Victoria the Great there had been an accumulating uneasiness in the national life. It was as if some compact and dignified paper-weight had been lifted from people's ideas, and as if at once they had begun to blow about anyhow.

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If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined it at leisure.

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

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The Jews looked for a special savior, a messiah, who was to redeem mankind by the agreeable process of restoring the fabulous glories of David and Solomon, and bringing the whole world at last under the firm but benevolent Jewish heel.

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The too perfect security of the Upper-worlders had led them to a slow movement of degeneration, a general dwindling in size, strength, and intelligence.

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For all my desire to be interesting, I have to confess that for most things and people I don't give a damn.

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What on earth would a man do with himself, if something did not stand in his way?

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It is not much good thinking of a thing unless you think it out.

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Our true nationality is mankind.

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The cat, which is a solitary beast, is single minded and goes its way alone, but, the dog, like his master, is confused in his mind.

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

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The character of the Open Conspiracy [the movement towards a world collective] will now be plainly displayed. It will have become a great world movement as widespread and evident as socialism or communism. It will largely have taken the place of these movements. It will be more, it will be a world religion.

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