H. G. Wells: There are no social differences

The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.

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valleys fog gathering

If I am recalling an incident very vividly I go back to the instant of its occurrence; I become absent minded, as you say. I jump back for a moment. Of course we have no means of staying back for any length of time any more than a savage or an animal has of staying six feet above the ground. But a civilized man is better off than the savage in this respect. He can go up against gravitation in a balloon, and why should we not hope that ultimately he may be able to stop or accelerate his drift along the Time Dimension; or even to turn about and travel the other way?

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time men mean

...instead of offering me a Garibaldi biscuit, she asked me with that faint lisp of hers, to 'have some squashed flies, George'.

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biscuits offering food

Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness. The work of ameliorating the conditions of life -- the true civilizing process that makes life more and more secure -- had gone steadily on to a climax... And the harvest was what I saw.

H. G. Wells

outcomes gone needs

The passion for playing Chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world

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playing-chess passion world

Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand.

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time long hands

The greatest task of democracy, its ritual and feast - is choice.

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democracies-have freedom choices

I believe that now and always the conscious selection of the best for reproduction will be impossible; that to propose it is to display a fundamental misunderstanding of what individuality implies. The way of nature has always been to slay the hindmost, and there is still no other way, unless we can prevent those who would become the hindmost being born. It is in the sterilization of failure, and not in the selection of successes for breeding, that the possibility of an improvement of the human stock lies.

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eugenics believe lying

We are but phantoms ... and the phantoms of phantoms, desires like cloud-shadows and wills of straw that eddy in the wind; the days pass, use and wont carry us through as a train carries the shadow of its lights.

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light clouds wind

In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activity.

H. G. Wells

lasts world knowledge

The man was running away with the rest, and selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran—a grotesque mingling of profit and panic.

H. G. Wells

paper running men

It's against reason," said Filby. "What reason?" said the Time Traveller.

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traveller reason said

The art of ignoring is one of the accomplishments of every well-bred girl, so carefully instilled that at last she can even ignore her own thoughts and her own knowledge.

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accomplishment girl art

The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action.

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genius government action

But there are times when the little cloud spreads, until it obscures the sky. And those times I look around at my fellow men and I am reminded of some likeness of the beast-people, and I feel as though the animal is surging up in them. And I know they are neither wholly animal nor holy man, but an unstable combination of both.

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clouds animal men

There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven.

H. G. Wells

host stars heaven

Room to swing a cat, it seemed was absolutely essential. It was an infrequent but indispensable operation.

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swings essentials cat

This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.

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ants men war

I went over the heads of the things a man reckons desirable. No doubt invisibility made it possible to get them, but it made it impossible to enjoy them when they are got.

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invisibility doubt men

I am for world-control of production and of trade and transport, for a world coinage, and the confederation of mankind. I am for the super-State.

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mankind states world

There are no social differences - till women come in.