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| Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness. | H. G. Wells | The Time Machine |  |
| Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future. | H. G. Wells | The Time Machine | |
| He, I know--for the question had been discussed among us long before the Time Machine was made--thought but cheerlessly of the Advancement of Mankind, and saw in the growing pile of civilization only a foolish heaping that must inevitably fall back upon and destroy its makers in the end. | H. G. Wells | The Time Machine | |
| "It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble." | H. G. Wells | The Time Machine | |
| "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." | H. G. Wells | The Time Machine | |
