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'Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.'

'Advertising is legalized lying.'

'It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.'

'Cynicism is humour in ill health.'

'Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.'

'History is a race between education and catastrophe.'

'If we don't end war, war will end us.'

'If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.'

'In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table'

'Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.'

'Our true nationality is mankind.'

'The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.'

'What really matters is what you do with what you have.'

Born in Bromley, Kent
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9076509/H-G-Wells Biog from Britannica

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I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. - Thomas Hardy
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Battle of Northampton - 1460, Lady Jane Grey proclaimed Queen of England - 1553, Battle of Beachy Head - 1690, The Battle of Britain begins - 1940, Launch of the Parking Meter - 1958
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