Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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H. G. Wells
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About H. G. Wells
Herbert George Wells was an English writer, prolific in many genres. He wrote more than forty novels and dozens of short stories. His non-fiction output included works of social commentary, politics, history, popular science, satire, biography, and autobiography. Wells is most known today for his groundbreaking science fiction novels; he has sometimes been called the "father of science fiction", a title that has also been given to Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback.
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Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduat…
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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.
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.