H. G. Wells Quotes
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If we don't end war, war will end us.
[War]
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
[Attempt]
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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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In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activity.
[Science]
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It is good to be a part of life. Just as a sundial counts only the sunny hours, so does life know only that it is living.
[Life]
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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.
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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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Militarism and warfare are childish things, if they are not more horrible than anything childish can be. They must become things of the past.
[War]
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
[Religion]
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
[Humanity]
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Religion is the first thing and the last thing, and until a man has found God and been found by God, he begins at no beginning, he works to no end.
[Religion]
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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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Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
[Crisis]
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