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H.G. Wells was a prominent English writer known for his science fiction, history, and social commentary. His most famous works include 'The Time Machine,' 'The War of the Worlds,' and 'The Invisible Man.' Born on September 21, 1866, in Bromley, Kent, England, Wells passed away on August 13, 1946.

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“The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.”

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Author:H. G. Wells

“A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.”

Source: The Salvaging of Civilization: The Probable Future of Mankind

“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 and changed human thought.”

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Book:A Short History of the World

Source: A Short History of the World

“After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.”

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Book:The Last Books of H.G. Wells: The Happy Turning: A Dream of Life & Mind at the End of its Tether

Source: The Last Books of H.G. Wells: The Happy Turning: A Dream of Life & Mind at the End of its Tether

“Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.”

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Book:The Island of Doctor Moreau

Source: The Island of Doctor Moreau

“Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.”

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“I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.”

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“Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.”

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Book:The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic

Source: The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic

“Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.”

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Book:A Modern Utopia

Source: A Modern Utopia

“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 successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?”

Source: The New World Order

“One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.”

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Book:A Modern Utopia

Source: A Modern Utopia

“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 sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.”

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Book:Apropos of Dolores by H. G. Wells (Illustrated)

Source: Apropos of Dolores by H. G. Wells (Illustrated)

“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 is the measure of imperfection.”

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Book:A Modern Utopia

Source: A Modern Utopia

“We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.”

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Book:World brain

Source: World brain

“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, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.”

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Book:The Rights of Man

Source: The Rights of Man

“The past is but the past of a beginning.”

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Author:H. G. Wells

About the Author

Born: September 21, 1866
Died: August 13, 1946
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 366

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