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H. G. Wells

prolific English writer best known for his science-fiction novels; he also wrote on contemporary social problems and wrote popular accounts of history and science (1866-1946)

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We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.

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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

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The past is but the past of a beginning.

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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

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The crisis of yesterday is the joke of tomorrow.

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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

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It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening.

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Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.

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'We were making the future,' he said, and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is'.

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... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it becomes an efficient and beneficent world system. Countless people ... will hate the new world order ... and will die protesting it. When we attempt to evaluate its promise, we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents, many of them quite gallant and graceful-looking people.

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A time will come when a politician who has wilfully 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 mens lives should not stake their own.

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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

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Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

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Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.

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Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia.

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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

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Go away...I'm alright.

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I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing. I see ever-increasing possibilities before life, And I see no limits set to it at all, Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend, are great in expectations.

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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

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Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom

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

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There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

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When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race.

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