"It is a law of nature we overlook,……" — H.G. Wells
"It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism. Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have a huge variety of needs and dangers."
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294 Quotes by H.G. Wells
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We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable.
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Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election.
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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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