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Them Quotes by H.G. Wells
- He spares no resource in telling of his dead inventions... Bare verbs he rarely tolerates. He splits infinitives and fills them up with adverbial stuffing.…
- Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.
- ... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it…
- There is no upper limit to what individuals are capable of doing with their minds. There is no age limit that bars them from beginning.…
- In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
- 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…
- 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…
- We will peck them to death to-morrow, my dear.
- We should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what help us grow. With out them we grow weak like the Eloi in…
- New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises 'Why then are you not taking part in them?
- But there are times when the little cloud spreads, until it obscures the sky. And those times I look around at my fellow men and…
- I went over the heads of the things a man reckons desirable. No doubt invisibility made it possible to get them, but it made it…
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