Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Meandering freely . . .

Today is the birthday of Herbert George Wells (September 21, 1866 – August 13, 1946), novelist, journalist, sociologist, and historian. H.G. Wells's best known works are The Time Machine (1895), one of the first modern science fiction stories, The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898).

"The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is or has been is but the twilight of the dawn."
- H. G. Wells

"The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other."
- H. G. Wells

"Sometimes, you have to step outside of the person you've been and remember the person you were meant to be. The person you want to be. The person you are."
- H. G. Wells

"What really matters is what you do with what you have."
- H. G. Wells

"After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true."
- H. G. Wells

"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative."
- H. G. Wells

"
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today."
- H. G. Wells

"There's truths you have to grow into."
- H. G. Wells

"If we don't end war, war will end us."
- H. G. Wells

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