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One Quotes by H.G. Wells
- The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in the face. It…
- The passion for playing Chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world
- Endless conflicts. Endless misunderstanding. All life is that. Great and little cannot understand one another.
- 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,…
- Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write!
- 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 world needs something stronger than any possible rebellion against its peace. In other words it needs a federal world government embodying a new conception…
- Now the most comprehensive conception of this new world is of one politically, socially and economically united To this end a small but increasing body…
- 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…
- Armament should be an illegality everywhere, and some sort of international force should patrol a treaty-bound world. Partial armament is one of those absurdities dear…
- After your first day of cycling, one dream is inevitable. A memory of motion lingers in the muscles of your legs, and round and round…
- One believes in Stephen Dedalus as one believes in few characters in fiction.
- 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…
- To be honest, one must be inconsistent.
- 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…
- The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the…
- 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…
- One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
- They haven't any spirit in them - no proud dreams and no proud lusts; and a man who hasn't one or the other-Lord! What is…
- No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater…
- Here lies a toppled god. His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedestal, A narrow and a tall one.
- Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never died, fretted by a law they could not understand; their mock-human…
- The fact is, the Time Traveller was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all…
- The art of ignoring is one of the accomplishments of every well-bred girl, so carefully instilled that at last she can even ignore her own…
- You must follow me carefully. I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted. The geometry, for instance, they taught…
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