"If the world does not please you, you can change it."

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Source : H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.3162, Delphi Classics

H. G. Wells

#Doe Quotes #World Quotes #Please Quotes

“I would love to get an international version of Riding Shotgun going, because that's what I've been angling at ever since I wanted to do a travel show in the first place.”
“Unfortunately, these past few years, you can work hard, try to be as successful as possible, follow the rules, and President Barack Obama will do everything he can to stand in your way.”
“...we should never judge anyone; a 'wicked' action which we may see as 'evil', may be necessary for the greater good. Where would the story of Christ be without Judas? His actions were ultimately good; a part of the plan.”
“[The sea] is the healer and the reviver, it cleanses the cavities of self-disgust and melancholy, of sloth and negation with the salt solution of life. It cures the lethargies of flesh and spirit with the slap and shake of elemental force. It cradles and comforts. Give it trust and it holds you secure; fight it and it kills.”
“The worshipper of energy is too physically energetic to see that he cannot explore certain higher fields until he is still.”

Source : Clarence Day, Jr. (2004). “This Simian World”, p.15, 1st World Publishing
“There's nothing so much like a god on earth as a General on a battlefield.”

Source : Jeff Shaara, Michael Shaara (2012). “The Civil War Trilogy 3-Book Boxset (Gods and Generals, The Killer Angels, and The Last Full Measure)”, p.434, Ballantine Books
“What is particularly intriguing, in fact, is that whereas many peoples tend to locate this experience (of the sacred) in certain unusual, if not 'supernatural' moments and circumstances . . . the Oriental focus is upon mystery in the most obvious, ordinary, mundane-the most natural-situations of life.”
“The hours that ordinary people waste, extraordinary people leverage.”

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