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Been Quotes by H.G. Wells
- You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel-a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work was done, my mind has…
- If all the animals and man had been evolved in this ascendant manner, then there had been no first parents, no Eden, and no Fall.…
- 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…
- The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand,…
- I doubt if these two fine, active minds [President and Mrs. Roosevelt] have ever inquiried how it is they know what they know and think…
- Anthropology has been compared to a great region, marked out indeed as within the sphere of influence of science, but unsettled and for the most…
- Nothing could have been more obvious to the people of the early twentieth century than the rapidity with which war was becoming impossible. And as…
- The history of India for many centuries had been happier, less fierce, and more dreamlike than any other history. In these favorable conditions, they built…
- All four Gospels agree in giving us a picture of a very definite personality. One is obliged to say, "Here was a man. This could…
- The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
- While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were…
- 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…
- This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.
- Sometimes, you have to step outside of the person you've been and remember the person you were meant to be. The person you want to…
- The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice. Yet had I…
- 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…
- Well, I do not mind telling you I have been at work upon this geometry of Four Dimensions for some time. Some of my results…
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