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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
It becomes a bore doing imaginative books that do not touch imaginations, and at length one stops even planning them.
H. G. Wells - Preface of "The Complete Science-Fiction Treasury of H.G. Wells"
English author, historian, & utopian
1866 - 1946
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.
English author, historian, & utopian
1866 - 1946
When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race.
The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.
Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
'We were making the future,' he said, and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is'.
The past is but the past of a beginning.
Religion is pickled God.
H. G. Wells - H. G. Wells Society
English author, historian, & utopian
1866 - 1946
Strength is the outcome of need.
H. G. Wells - The Time Machine
English author, historian, & utopian
1866 - 1946
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.

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