Wells Quotes

• In 1920 [H.G. Wells] described human history as becoming more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

  Joel Garreau

  Race, Becoming, Evolution

  Joel Garreau (2005). “Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human”, p.109, Broadway Books

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• Even without success, creative persons find joy in a job well done. Learning for its own sake is rewarding.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Life, Motivational, Jobs

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2009). “Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• How's the game changed in my 15 years in the league? Well, we used to be called hard-working players. Now we're overpaid crybabies.

  Brett Hull

  Hard Work, Hockey, Player

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• I get pissed off. I simply do not understand someone who hits a ball that lands behind a tree and can look at it and say, "Well, that's golf".

  Simon Hobday

  Golf, Land, Tree

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• Die while alive
  And be thoroughly dead.
  Then do what you will,
  All is good.

  Philip Kapleau

  Death, Acceptance, Alive

  "The Zen of Living and Dying: A Practical and Spiritual Guide".

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• The prime minister says he has a vision for change, well put that to the people of the country.

  David Cameron

  Country, People, Vision

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• Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Blessed

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• Everybody isn't your friend. Just because they hang around you and laugh with you doesn't mean they're for you. Just because they say they got got your back, doesn't mean they won't stab you in it. People pretend well. Jealousy sometimes doesn't live far. So know your circle. At the end of the day real situations expose fake people so pay attention.

  Trent Shelton

  Jealousy, Fake Friends, Fake People

  FaceBook post by Trent Shelton from Nov 05, 2013

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• Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Taken, Learning, Men

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.110, Stanford University Press

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• In the light of eternity we shall see that what we desired would have been fatal to us, and that what we would have avoided was essential to our well-being.

  Francois Fenelon

  Disappointment, Light, Essentials

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• Learn from the negative as well as the positive, from the failures as well as the successes.

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Positive, Success

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 14, 2016

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• I am a human being, not a human doing. Don't equate your self-worth with how well you do things in life. You aren't what you do. If you are what you do, then when you don't . . , you aren't.

  Wayne Dyer

  Self Worth, Things In Life, Humans

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Sep 19, 2011

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• I am well convinced that Aerial Navigation will form a most prominent feature in the progress of civilization.

  George Cayley

  Airplane, Civilization, Progress

  Sir George Cayley (1933). “Aeronautical and miscellaneous note-book (ca. 1799-1826): of Sir George Cayley”

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• A frog in a well does not know the great sea.

  Chris Bradford

  Sea, Doe, Frogs

  Chris Bradford (2010). “The Ring of Earth (Young Samurai, Book 4): The Ring of Earth”, p.58, Penguin UK

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• How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

  Ronald Reagan

  Business, Government, Political

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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  God enjoins you to treat women well, for they are your mothers, daughters, aunts.

  Muhammad

  God, Mother Daughter, Religious

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  A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• Think well. Speak well. Do well. These three things, through the mercy of God, will make a man go to Heaven.

  Camillus de Lellis

  Faith, Inspiration, Men

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• I still need Marines who can shoot and salute. But I need Marines who can fix jet engines and man sophisticated radar sets, as well.

  Robert E. Cushman, Jr.

  Military, Marine, Men

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• There is a wide world out there, full of pain, but filled with joy as well. The former keeps you on the path of growth and the latter makes the journey tolerable.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Pain, Journey, Joy

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• In prehistoric times, Homo sapiens was deeply endangered. Early humans were less fleet of foot, with fewer natural weapons and less well-honed senses than all the predators that threatened them. Moreover, they were hampered in their movements by the need to protect their uniquely immature young - juicy meals for any hungry beast.

  Robert Winston

  Feet, Immature, Meals

  "Philip Roth was wrong" by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2005.

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• The highest compliment I could ever receive about my kids - and I can say that this does happen frequently - is when the in-flight crew say to me, 'Your children are wonderful. They are so well-behaved.' Every time I am told that, I could weep.

  Kate Winslet

  Children, Kids, Doe

  "Kate Winslet: Your #1 Most Glam". Interview with Skip Hollandsworth, www.glamour.com. February 28, 2011.

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• I'm not good with children," the god confessed. "Or people. Well, any organic life forms, really.

  Rick Riordan

  Children, People, Form

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• Steve Jobs was a great friend as well as a trusted advisor. His legacy will extend far beyond the products he created or the businesses he built. It will be the millions of people he inspired, the lives he changed, and the culture he defined.

  Bob Iger

  Jobs, People, Legacy

  "Colleagues, friends react to Steve Jobs' death, www.cnn.com. October 5, 2011.

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• Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Soul, Mind, May

  In Memoriam prologue, st. 7 (1850)

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