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H. G. Wells Quotes

Advertising is legalized lying.

H. G. Wells

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.

H. G. Wells

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

H. G. Wells

Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.

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

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Cynicism is humor in ill health.

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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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To be honest one must be inconsistent.

H. G. Wells

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

H. G. Wells

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

H. G. Wells

Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.

H. G. Wells

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

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I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

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

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The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.

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

H. G. Wells

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

H. G. Wells

If we don't end war, war will end us.

H. G. Wells

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

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

H. G. Wells