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"With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure."
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"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
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"Better hazard once than always be in fear."
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"Only cowards leave words unspoken."
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Personal Development
"Live dangerously and you live right."
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Personal Development
"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again."
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Personal Development
"Sometimes, despite how your heart feels, you have to do what you must in order to get the result you need. When it's impossible to walk away then you need to make it hurt and they will walk away for you."
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"What are you going to do? Are you going to live in the dark, locked in here? Afraid to look out, answer the door, leave? Yes, he's out there, and he's clearly not going to leave you alone until one of three things happens: he hurts you and gets arrested, or he makes a mistake and gets arrested, or you stop him."
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"Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it."
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Personal Development
"Some say "fear even helps like; The flight or over love reaction but to me it is your loving heart to prove to prove it worthy."
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"In this space, in this moment, we are who we want to be. I am lucky, because for me that doesn't take much courage. But for others, it takes a world of bravery to make it to the clearing."
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Explore more quotes by H. G. Wells
"The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?"
Politics
"Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have."
People
"There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection."
Beauty
"Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge."
Knowledge
"A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own."
Time
"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race."
Time
"A certain beauty in the world is no mark of God's favor, said Mr. Huss. There is no beauty one may not balance by an equal ugliness. The warthog and the hyena, the tapeworm and the stinkhorn, are equally God's creations. Nothing you have said points to anything but a cold indifference towards us of this order in which we live. Beauty happens; it is not given. Pain, suffering, happiness; there is no heed. Only in the heart of man burns the fire of righteousness."
Philosophy
"Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change."
Philosophy
"All we can do is to prepare for a universal language that will go on changing for ever. We don't know everything. We aren't final. I wish we could make that statement a part of the Fundamental Law."
Knowledge
"Tewler Americanus in particular was irritated by a harsh logic that overrode his dearest belief in his practical isolation, whenever he chose to withdraw himself, from the affairs of the rest of the world. He had escaped from the old world and he hated to feel that he was being drawn back to share a common destiny with the rest of mankind."
Life
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