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Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946), usually referred to as H. G. Wells, was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, satire, biography, and autobiography, including even two books on war games. He is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is often called a "father of science fiction", along with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback.[a]

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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

Broken, Broken Heart, Friendship, Path, Social, Work

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.

Beauty, Golf, Men, Plays, Uglier

It seems to me that I am more to the Left than you, Mr Stalin

Left, Seems, Stalin

The crisis [the Great Depression] discovered a great man in Franklin Roosevelt. . . None too soon he has carried America forward to the second stage of democratic realization. His New Deal involves such collective controls of the national business that it would be absurd to call it anything but socialism, were it not for a prejudice lingering on from the old individualist days against that word. . . Both Roosevelt and Stalin were attempting to produce a huge, modern, scientifically organized, socialist state, the one out of a warning crisis and the other out of a chaos.

America, Call, Crisis, Depression, Men, Prejudice

By this time I was no longer very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed the limit of terror and despair. I felt now that my life was practically lost, and that persuasion made me capable of daring anything

Despair, Life, Limits, Miserable, Time

Socialism is the preparation for that higher Anarchism; painfully, laboriously we mean to destroy false ideas of property and self, eliminate unjust laws and poisonous and hateful suggestions and prejudices, create a system of social right-dealing and a tradition of right-feeling and action. Socialism is the schoolroom of true and noble Anarchism, wherein by training and restraint we shall make free men.

Anarchism, Ideas, Mean, Men, Poisonous, Social

The War That Will End War.

War, Ends

Since the passing of Victoria the Great there had been an accumulating uneasiness in the national life. It was as if some compact and dignified paper-weight had been lifted from people's ideas, and as if at once they had begun to blow about anyhow.

Blow, Ideas, Life, Lifted, People

The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves for the general Good. Lies are the mortar that bind the savage individual man into the social masonry.

Lying, Men, Savages, Vast, Beings, Contract

An immense and ever-increasing wealth of knowledge is scattered about the world today; knowledge that would probably suffice to solve all the mighty difficulties of our age, but it is dispersed and unorganized. We need a sort of mental clearing house for the mind: a depot where knowledge and ideas are received, sorted, summarized, digested, clarified and compared.

Clarified, Dispersed, House, Ideas, Solve, Wealth Of Knowledge

Room to swing a cat, it seemed was absolutely essential. It was an infrequent but indispensable operation.

Cat, Essentials, Operation, Seemed, Swing, Swings

Science is a match that man has just got alight. He thought he was in a room - in moments of devotion, a temple - and that his light would be reflected from and display walls inscribed with wonderful secrets and pillars carved with philosophical systems wrought into harmony. It is a curious sensation, now that the preliminary splutter is over and the flame burns up clear, to see his hands and just a glimpse of himself and the patch he stands on visible, and around him, in place of all that human comfort and beauty he anticipated - darkness still.

Wall, Philosophical, Men, Moments, Splutter

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Attitude, Cancer, Matters, Motivational

You are not mechanics, you are warriors. You have been trained, not to think, but to do.

Mechanic, Mechanics, Think, Thinking, Trained, Warrior

Are we all bubbles blown by a baby?

Baby, Blown, Bubbles

Christ is the most unique person of history. No man can write a history of the human race without giving first and foremost place to the penniless Teacher of Nazareth.

History, Penniless, Place, Teacher, Unique, Writing

We're in a blessed drainpipe, and we've got to crawl along it till we die.

Blessed, Crawl, Die, Dies, Till

By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers; it would still be his were the Martians ten times as mighty as they are. For neither do men live nor die in vain.

Earth, Man, Men, Ten, Tolls, Vain

It is the system of nationalist individualism that has to go. . . . We are living in the end of the sovereign states. . . . In the great struggle to evoke a Westernized World Socialism, contemporary governments may vanish. . . . Countless people. . . will hate the new world order. . . . and will die protesting against it.

Hate, Sovereign, States, Struggle, System, World Government

And all over the countryside, he knew, on every crest and hill, where once the hedges had interlaced, and cottages, churches, inns, and farmhouses had nestled among their trees, wind wheels similar to those he saw and bearing like vast advertisements, gaunt and distinctive symbols of the new age, cast their whirling shadows and stored incessantly the energy that flowed away incessantly through all the arteries of the city. . . . The great circular shapes of complaining wind-wheels blotted out the heavens.

Cities, Farmhouses, Incessantly, Shapes, Tree, Wind

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