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H. G. Wells
H. G. Wells
English Author
Born: Sep 21, 1866
Died: Aug 13, 1946
Beginning Between History Made Man World
Related authors: A. A. Milne J. K. Rowling John Galsworthy Lewis Carroll Mary Shelley Samuel Johnson Simon Sinek Terry Pratchett
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise. H. G. Wells
Sad Wise Sorry Affliction Make Sober Us
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race. H. G. Wells
Future Time Bicycle Every Despair Every Time I See See Adult Longer Human Race Human Race
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. H. G. Wells
Jealousy Moral Indignation Halo
Beauty is in the heart of the beholder. H. G. Wells
Heart Beauty Beholder
Our true nationality is mankind. H. G. Wells
Our True Nationality Mankind
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. H. G. Wells
War Time Will Made Men Own Politician Those Promoted Come Dock Sure Surer Private Than Stake Much Gamble Should Reasonable Who International Lives Homicide
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. H. G. Wells
Education History More More And More Catastrophe Between Becomes Human Race Human History
Advertising is legalized lying. H. G. Wells
Legal Lying Advertising
What really matters is what you do with what you have. H. G. Wells
You Matters Really
Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit. H. G. Wells
Fire Vanish Lead Leaders Lit As Far As Ashes Far Then Should Choke
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. H. G. Wells
You Man World Will Though Rate Through Troubles He Cheerful Cheerfulness Sure Were Been End Behave Any Getting Hold While Justified Your Reasonable Chance
The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. H. G. Wells
Past Beginning Has-Been Dawn Been Twilight
Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community. H. G. Wells
Failure Crime Community State Bad End In The End Measure Lives
The path of least resistance is the path of the loser. H. G. Wells
Path Least Loser Resistance
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? H. G. Wells
Socialism Achieve Word Experiment Extraordinarily Else Collapse Parallel Russian Attempt New Policies Call New Deal Deal Shirk America American Social Plainly Working Avert Successive Plans
The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow. H. G. Wells
Today Tomorrow Joke Crisis
The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships. H. G. Wells
Broken Path Strewn Must Advancement Friendships Social
I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea. H. G. Wells
Imagination Crew Must See Sort Doing Submarine Confess Any Refuses Anything Sea Suffocating
In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table. H. G. Wells
Politics Best Face Enough Way Table Best Way Lay Upwards Them Your Strangely Play Cards
Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have. H. G. Wells
People Some People Three Trouble Kinds Some Bear Had Expect
There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile. H. G. Wells
Death You Suffering Made Revolution Nothing Our Danger Worthwhile Abolish Purpose Simply Wrong Suffer
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. H. G. Wells
Ugly Nothing Engineering Machinery Oblige Imperfection Devices Ugliness Iron Them Measure Bridges Railways
Human history in essence is the history of ideas. H. G. Wells
History Ideas Essence Human The History Of Human History
In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it. H. G. Wells
Perception Intervening Ought Something Rely Attempt Between Come Comfortable Years Done Century Fifty England Serious
I had rather be called a journalist than an artist. H. G. Wells
Journalist Rather Had Than Artist
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 that is blind. H. G. Wells
War Conflict Air Once Seeing Host Between Obtained Armies Blind Contending Becomes Command
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