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Great Quotes by H.G. Wells
- The Islamic teachings have left great traditions for equitable and gentle dealings and behavior, and inspire people with nobility and tolerance. These are human teachings…
- Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election.
- Endless conflicts. Endless misunderstanding. All life is that. Great and little cannot understand one another.
- It is the system of nationalist individualism that has to go....We are living in the end of the sovereign states....In the great struggle to evoke…
- ... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it…
- The great body of physical science, a great deal of the essential fact of financial science, and endless social and political problems are only accessible…
- 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…
- The crisis [the Great Depression] discovered a great man in Franklin Roosevelt...None too soon he has carried America forward to the second stage of democratic…
- 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…
- And all over the countryside, he knew, on every crest and hill, where once the hedges had interlaced, and cottages, churches, inns, and farmhouses had…
- The great trouble with you Americans is that you are still under the influence of that second-rate - shall I say third-rate? - mind, Karl…
- You have only to play at Little Wars three or four times to realize just what a blundering thing Great War must be. Great War…
- 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…
- After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
- The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action.
- 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…
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