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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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jealousy
morality
disapproval
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Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.
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science
intelligence
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We should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what help us grow. With out them we grow weak like the Eloi in comfort and security. We need to constantly be challenging ourselves in order to strengthen our character and increase our intelligence.
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progress
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It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.
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morning
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Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life.
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There's truths you have to grow into.
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maturity
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No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.
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opening-lines
first-sentence
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It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism. Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have a huge variety of needs and dangers.
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change
strength
intelligence
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I hope, or I could not live.
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Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough---as most wrong theories are!
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All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.
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We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.
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pain
improvement
growth
invention
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Face this world. Learn its ways, watch it, be careful of too hasty guesses at its meaning. In the end you will find clues to it all.
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I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world
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world
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Be a man!... What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have done before to men! Did you think that God had exempted [us]? He is not an insurance agent.
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religion
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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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Perhaps I am a man of exceptional moods. I do not know how far my experience is common. At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me; I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all. This feeling was very strong upon me that night. Here was another side to my dream.
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For after the Battle comes quiet.
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We are always getting away from the present moment. Our mental existence, which are immaterial and have no dimensions, are passing along the Time-Dimension with a uniform velocity from the cradle to the grave.
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An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.
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The fact is, the Time Traveller was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all round him; you always suspected some subtle reserve, some ingenuity in ambush, behind his lucid frankness.
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My days I devote to reading and experiments in chemistry, and I spend many of the clear nights in the study of astronomy. 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. There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever is more than animal within us must find its sol..
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stars
heaven
inspiration
hope
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We must remember what ruthless and utter destruction our own species has wrought, not only upon animals, such as vanished bison and the dodo, but upon its own inferior races. The Tasmanians . . . were entirely swept out of existence in a war of extermination waged by European immigrants, in the space if fifty years. Are we such apostles of mercy as to complain if the Martians warred in the same spirit?
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It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.
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suffering
pity
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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.
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Alone-- it is wonderful how little a man can do alone! To rob a little, to hurt a little, and there is the end.
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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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I grieved to think how brief the dream of the human intellect had been. It had committed suicide.
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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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Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.
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There are really four dimensions, three which we call the three planes of Space, and a fourth, Time.
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By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers; it would still be his were the Martians ten times as mighty as they are. For neither do men live nor die in vain.
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Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.
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The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action.
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To sit among all those unknown things before a puzzle like that is hopeless. That way lies monomania. Face this world. Learn its ways, watch it, be careful of too hasty guesses at its meaning. In the end you will find clues to it all.
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H.G. Wells |
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Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims.
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H.G. Wells |
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The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice
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H.G. Wells |
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fact takes no heed of human hopes.
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When she was fifteen if you'd told her that when she was twenty she'd be going to bed with bald-headed men and liking it, she would have thought you very abstract.
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I never blame anyone," said Kemp. "It's quite out of fashion."
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inspirational
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H.G. Wells |
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If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined it at leisure.
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H.G. Wells |
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By this time I was no longer very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed the limit of terror and despair. I felt now that my life was practically lost, and that persuasion made me capable of daring anything
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terror
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That Anarchist world, I admit, is our dream; we do believe - well, I, at any rate, believe this present world, this planet, will some day bear a race beyond our most exalted and temerarious dreams, a race begotten of our wills and the substance of our bodies, a race, so I have said it, 'who will stand upon the earth as one stands upon a footstool, and laugh and reach out their hands amidst the stars,' but the way to that is through educatio..
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What, unless biological science is a mass of errors, is the cause of human intelligence and vigour? Hardship and freedom: conditions under which the active, strong, and subtle survive and the weaker go to the wall; conditions that put a premium upon the loyal alliance of capable men, upon self-restraint, patience, and decision. And the institution of the family, and the emotions that arise therein, the fierce jealousy, the tenderness for of..
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