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Religion is the first thing and the last thing, and until a man has found God and been found by God, he begins at no beginning, he works to no end.

(H. G. Wells)

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The world state must begin; it can only begin, as a propaganda cult, or as a group of propagandist cults, to which men and women must give themselves and their energies, regardless of the consequence to themselves The activities of a cult which sets itself to bring about the world-state would at first be propagandist, they would be intellectual and educational, and only as a sufficient mass of opinion and will had accumulated would they become to a predominant extent politically constructive. Such a cult must direct itself particularly to the teaching of the young.

(H. G. Wells)

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We live in a world of unused and misapplied knowledge and skill.

(H. G. Wells)

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Find the thing you want to do most intensely, make sure that’s it, and do it with all your might. If you live, well and good. If you die, well and good. Your purpose is done.

(H. G. Wells)

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Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues.

(Aristotle)

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We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea.

(Aristotle)

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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

(Aristotle)

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Experience has shown that it is difficult, if not impossible, for a populous state to be run by good laws.

(Aristotle)

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The blood of a goat will shatter a diamond.

(Aristotle)

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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

(H. G. Wells)

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Beauty is in the heart of the beholde.

(H. G. Wells)

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If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.

(H. G. Wells)

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It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.

(H. G. Wells)

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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

(H. G. Wells)

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The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail.

(Aristotle)

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Suppose, then, that all men were sick or deranged, save one or two of them who were healthy and of right mind. It would then be the latter two who would be thought to be sick and deranged and the former not!

(Aristotle)

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Men are marked from the moment of birth to rule or be ruled.

(Aristotle)