Within he felt that faint stirring of derision for the whole business of life which is the salt of the American mentality. Outwardly they are sentimental and enthusiastic and inwardly they are profoundly cynical.

H.G. Wells
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  2. A true friend is a gift from God. Since God doesn't exist, guess what? Neither do true friends. - Scott Dikkers

  3. It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little. - Diogenes Of Sinope

  4. To sum it all up, the [Ayn] Rand belief system looks like this:1. Facts are facts: things can be absolutely right or absolutely wrong, as determined by reason.2. According to my reasoning, I am absolutely right.3. Charity is immoral.4. Pay for your own fucking schools. - Matt Taibbi

  5. I never feel unsafe except for when the majority is on my side. - Criss Jami

More Quotes By H.G. Wells
  1. The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.

  2. Be a man! ... What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have done before to men! Did you think that God had exempted [us]? He is not an insurance agent.

  3. But I have believed always and taught always that what God demands from man is his utmost effort to cooperate and understand. I have taught the imagination, first and most; I have made knowledge, knowledge of what man is and what man's world is and...

  4. My days I devote to reading and experiments in chemistry, and I spend many of the clear nights in the study of astronomy. There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in...

  5. There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, andnot in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever ismore than animal within us must find its solace and its hope. I hope, or Icould not live.

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