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Herbert George Wells

1866-1946. British science-fiction writer, author of "The War of the Worlds", "The Invisible Man" and "The Time Machine".

1. "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."

categories: Life and Death

2. "The path of least resistance is the path of the loser."

categories: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Work and Laziness

3. "The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is or has been is but the twilight of the dawn."

categories: Time and Passing

4. "The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow."

categories: Time and Passing -:- Wit and Humor

5. "Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have."

categories: Various

6. "Our true nationality is mankind."

categories: Human -:- Patriotism

7. "Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum."

categories: History and Nations -:- Human

8. "If we don't end war, war will end us."

categories: Peace and War

9. "Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."

source: "Outline of History"

categories: History and Nations -:- Education

10. "Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth."

categories: Truth and Falsity

11. "Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race."

categories: Health and Alcohol -:- Human

12. "Cynicism is humour in ill health."

categories: Wit and Humor

13. "Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder."

categories: Beauty and Ugliness

14. "Advertising is legalized lying."

categories: Truth and Falsity -:- Various


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