All H. G. Wells Quotes
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
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
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Nature
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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.
H. G. Wells
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
H. G. Wells
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
H. G. Wells
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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
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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
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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.
H. G. Wells
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