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61 " You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel—a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work was done, my mind has been a whirlpool, swift, unprogressive and incessant, a torrent of thoughts leading nowhere, spinning round swift and steady "
― H.G. Wells , When the Sleeper Wakes
62 " The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature. "
― H.G. Wells
63 " A federation of all humanity, together with a sufficient measure of social justice, to ensure health, education, and a rough equality of opportunity to most of the children born into the world, would mean such a release and increase of human energy as to open a new phase in human history. "
64 " We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity. "
― H.G. Wells , The Time Machine
65 " It is when suffering finds a voice andsets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us. "
― H.G. Wells , The Island of Dr. Moreau
66 " I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out ofexistence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless. "
67 " The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the painin the world had found a voice "
68 " For it is just this question of pain that partsus. So long as visible or audible pain turns you sick; so long as your ownpains drive you; so long as pain underlies your propositions aboutsin,—so long, I tell you, you are an animal, thinking a little less obscurelywhat an animal feels. "
69 " Common sense and every material reality insisted upon the unification of human life throughout the planet and the socialisation of its elementary needs, and pitted against that was the fact that every authority, every institution, every established way of thinking and living was framed to preserve the advantages of the ruling and possessing minority and the separate sovereignty of the militant states that had been evolved within the vanished circumstances of the past. "
― H.G. Wells , The Holy Terror
70 " Tewler Americanus in particular was irritated by a harsh logic that overrode his dearest belief in his practical isolation, whenever he chose to withdraw himself, from the affairs of the rest of the world. He had escaped from the old world and he hated to feel that he was being drawn back to share a common destiny with the rest of mankind. "
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71 " Why are these things permitted? What sins have we done? The morning service was over, I was walking through the roads to clear my brain for the afternoon, and then—fire, earthquake, death! As if it were Sodom and Gomorrah! All our work undone, all the work— What are these Martians? What are we? I answered, clearing my throat. "
― H.G. Wells , The War of the Worlds
72 " There are kisses and kisses, I am told, and this must have been quite the other sort from Millie's resonant signals of regard. "
73 " Jesus was a penniless teacher who wandered about the dusty sun-bit country of Judea, living upon casual gifts of food; yet he is always represented clean, combed, and sleek, in spotless raiment, erect, and with something motionless about him as though he was gliding through the air. This alone has made him unreal and incredible to many people who cannot distinguish the core of the story from the ornamental and unwise additions of the unintelligently devout. "
― H.G. Wells , The Outline of History, Vol. 1 (of 2)
74 " The thing they wanted they called the Vote, but that demand so hollow, so eyeless, had all the terrifying effect of a mask. Behind that mask was a formless invincible discontent with the lot of womanhood. It wanted, — it was not clear what it wanted, but whatever it wanted, all the domestic instincts of mankind were against admitting there was anything it could want. "
― H.G. Wells , The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman
75 " [A]fter all it was true that a girl does not go alone in the world unchallenged, nor ever has gone freely alone in the world, that evil walks abroad and dangers, and petty insults more irritating than dangers, lurk. "
― H.G. Wells , Ann Veronica
76 " With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure. "
77 " It's chance, I tell you,' he interrupted, ' as everything is in a man's life. "
78 " It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening. "
79 " My pockets had always puzzled Weena, but at the last she had concluded that they were an eccentric kind of vase for floral decoration. "
80 " A certain elementary training in statistical method is becoming as necessary for everyone living in this world of today as reading and writing. "