"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."
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The Time Machine by
H. G. Wells
"It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble."
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The Time Machine by
H. G. Wells
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.
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The Time Machine by
H. G. Wells
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.
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The Time Machine by
H. G. Wells
Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness.
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The Time Machine by
H. G. Wells