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I have read your book and much like it.
—Moses Hadas
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Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading
it.
—Moses Hadas
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This book fills a much-needed gap.
—Moses Hadas
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As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a
thought for the other fellow. He could be plotting something.
—Hagar the Horrible
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Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
—Ken Hakuta
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It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we
imagine, is queerer than we can imagine.
—J. B. S. Haldane
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The worst advice a young writer can get is "Write what you
know." Imagination is more important than experience.
—Joe Haldeman
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If a building makes us light up, it is not because we see order; any row
of file cabinets is ordered. What we recognize and love is the same kind
of pattern we see in every face, the pattern of our own life form. The
same principles apply to buildings that apply to mollusks, birds or
trees. Architecture is the play of patterns derived from nature and
ourselves.
—Jonathan Hale
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There are some who start their retirement long before they stop
working.
—Robert Half
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Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need more.
—Addison H. Hallock
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Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
—Alex Hamilton
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A book of quotations...can never be complete.
—Robert M. Hamilton
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Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders while computer scientists
stand on each other's toes.
—R. W. Hamming
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The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.
—R. W. Hamming
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If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking a beer, I bet it
makes beer shoot out of your nose.
—Jack Handey
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War will cease when men refuse to fight.
—Fridtjof Hansen
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The word politics is derived from the word "poly," meaning "many," and the
word "ticks," meaning "blood-sucking parasites."
—Larry Hardiman
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Gold, n.: A soft malleable metal relatively scarce in distribution. It is
mined deep in the earth by poor men who then give it to rich men who
immediately bury it back in the earth in great prisons, although gold
hasn't done anything to them.
—Mike Harding, "The Armchair Anarchist's Almanac"
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If little green men land in your back yard, hide any little green women
you've got in the house.
—Mike Harding, "The Armchair Anarchist's Almanac"
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The Ruffed Padanga of Borneo and Rotherham spreads out his feathers in his
courtship dance and imitates Winston Churchill and Tommy Cooper on one
leg. The padanga is dying out because the female padanga doesn't take it
too seriously.
—Mike Harding, "The Armchair Anarchist's Almanac"
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It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By
definition, there are already enough people to do that.
—G. H. Hardy
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What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to
do the unnecessary.
—Richard Harkness
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Don't worry, I'm not an ogre—I do bite, but very selectively.
—Jennifer Harris
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Van Gogh became a painter because he had no ear for music.
—Nikki Harris
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Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered
an old idea and thinks it is his own.
—Sydney Harris
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Nirvana? That's the place where the powers that be and their friends hang
out.
—Zonker Harris
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One thing they don't tell you about doing experimental physics is that
sometimes you must work under adverse conditions...like a state of sheer
terror.
—William K. Hartmann
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It turned out to be mandatory spouse night, so I went to see Crouching
Terrier, Hidden Dachshund with Line. It was almost as fun as dancing.
—Terry Harvey, on why he wasn't at a dance
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What is research but a blind date with knowledge?
—Will Harvey
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Regrets over yesterday and the fear of tomorrow are twin thieves that rob
us of the moment.
—Robert J. Hastings
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to
do anything.
—Katharine Butler Hathaway
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It matters if you just don't give up.
—Stephen Hawking
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My goal is simple. It is complete understanding of the universe, why it as
it is and why it exists as all.
—Stephen Hawking
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Not only does God play dice, but...he sometimes throws them where they
cannot be seen.
—Stephen Hawking
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We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very
average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something
very special.
—Stephen Hawking
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Age is not important unless you're a cheese.
—Helen Hayes
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The probability of anything happening is in inverse ratio to its
desirability.
—John W. Hazard
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Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty,
hesitation or incongruity.
—William Hazlitt
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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
—William Hazlitt
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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
—William Hazlitt
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TRAINSPOTTING, a movie at once depressing and hilarious. A movie that begs
the question: What did George Lucas do to Ewan McGregor to make him such a
nonentity in TPM? Was it drugs in the food, or just a good whack with a
two-by-four prior to each take?
—Sarah Heim
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You know what we can be like: See a guy and think he's cute one minute,
the next minute our brains have us married with kids, the following minute
we see him having an extramarital affair. By the time someone says "I'd
like you to meet Cecil," we shout, "You're late again with the child
support!"
—Cynthia Heimel, "A Girl's Guide to Chaos"
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Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.
—Heinrich Heine
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God will forgive me. It's his job.
—Heinrich Heine
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There are more fools in the world than there are people.
—Heinrich Heine
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A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain.
—Lazarus Long (Robert Heinlein, "Time Enough For Love")
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A motion to adjourn is always in order.
—Lazarus Long (Robert Heinlein, "Time Enough for Love")
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Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and
why. Then do it.
—Lazarus Long (Robert Heinlein)
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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
—Robert Heinlein
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Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors and
miss.
—Lazarus Long (Robert Heinlein, "Time Enough for Love")
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"Love" is that condition in which the happiness of another person is
essential to your own....Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy
condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes
that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.
—Robert Heinlein, "Stranger in a Strange Land"
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Maybe Jesus was right when he said that the meek shall inherit the
earth—but they inherit very small plots, about six feet by three.
—Lazarus Long (Robert Heinlein)
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Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honor, make him pay cash.
—Lazarus Long (Robert Heinlein)
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Never appeal to a man's "better nature." He may not have one. Invoking his
self-interest gives you more leverage.
—Lazarus Long (Robert Heinlein)
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Never insult anyone by accident.
—Robert Heinlein
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Never try to outstubborn a cat.
—Lazarus Long (Robert Heinlein, "Time Enough for Love")
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Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the
pig.
—Lazarus Long (Robert Heinlein, "Time Enough for Love")
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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
—Robert A. Heinlein
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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed
to do.
—Robert Heinlein
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One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null
word.
—Robert Heinlein
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One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
—Robert Heinlein, "Time Enough for Love"
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Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are
invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful—just stupid).
—Robert Heinlein
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The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science
requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require
scholarship.
—Robert Heinlein
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To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy—and
dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
—Robert Heinlein
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To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites; moderation is for monks.
—Lazarus Long (Robert Heinlein)
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To stay young requires the unceasing ability to unlearn old
falsehoods.
—Lazarus Long (Robert Heinlein, "Time Enough for Love")
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When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not
far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is
that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
—Robert Heinlein
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Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in
private and wash your hands afterwards.
—Robert Heinlein
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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
—Robert Heinlein, "Time Enough for Love"
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You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having
both at once.
—Robert Heinlein
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Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't,
don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad
luck.
—Joseph Heller
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Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have
mediocrity thrust upon them.
—Joseph Heller
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Cynicism is an unpleasant way of telling the truth.
—Lillian Hellman
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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
—Lillian Hellman
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I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.
—Lillian Hellman
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My father was often angry when I was most like him.
—Lillian Hellman
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All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really
happened.
—Ernest Hemingway
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Courage is grace under pressure.
—Ernest Hemingway
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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived
and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
—Ernest Hemingway
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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
—Ernest Hemingway
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Never mistake motion for action.
—Ernest Hemingway
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We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
—Buck Henry
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Is life so dear, or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of
chains and slavery?
—Patrick Henry
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I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior
sex.
—Katharine Hepburn
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If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.
—Katharine Hepburn
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Let's just say that where a change was required, I adjusted. In every
relationship that exists, people have to seek a way to survive. If you
really care about the person, you do what's necessary, or that's the end.
For the first time, I found that I really could change, and the qualities
I most admired in myself I gave up. I stopped being loud and bossy...
Oh, all right. I was still loud and bossy, but only behind his back.
—Katharine Hepburn, on Tracy and Hepburn
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Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
—Katharine Hepburn
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Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful
women don't need to know about men. It's the men who have to know about
beautiful women.
—Katharine Hepburn
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Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they
should live next door and just visit now and then.
—Katharine Hepburn
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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without
having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in
sheep.
—A. P. Herbert
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The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not
understand.
—Frank Herbert
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The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the
following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid
hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver,
when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian.
—Frank Herbert
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Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the
opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment remember.
—Oliver Herford
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Manuscript: Something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
—Oliver Herford
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Only the young die good.
—Oliver Herford
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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
—Herodotus
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Force has no place where there is need of skill.
—Herodotus
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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
—Herodotus
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If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit
of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing
it.
—Herodotus
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Of all men's miseries, the bitterest is this: to know so much and have
control over nothing.
—Herodotus
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Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at
all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
—Herodotus
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There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more
sense than we have.
—Don Herold
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I can see why Judas would be worthy of being chewed by Lucifer.
—Lindsay Herron '00 on Dante's Inferno
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Racism is man's gravest threat to man—the maximum of hatred for a
minimum of reason.
—Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.
—Hermann Hesse
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be
sane.
—Hermann Hesse
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A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
—Granville Hicks
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Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and
drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death.
—Gilbert Highet
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These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the
shelves.
—Gilbert Highet
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There's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead
armadillos.
—Jim Hightower, Texas Agricultural Commissioner
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Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your
soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
—Napoleon Hill
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It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
—Sir Edmund Hillary
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I went to my first computer conference at the New York Hilton about 20
years ago. When somebody there predicted the market for microprocessors
would eventually be in the millions, someone else said, "Where are they
all going to go? It's not like you need a computer in every doorknob!"
Years later, I went back to the same hotel. I noticed the room keys had
been replaced by electronic cards you slide into slots in the doors.
There was a computer in every doorknob.
—Danny Hillis
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Jesus saves...but Gretzky gets the rebound!
—Daniel Hinojosa
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I heard that someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the
plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of
Francis Bacon.
—Bill Hirst
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A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the
babysitter were worth it.
—Alfred Hitchcock
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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
—Alfred Hitchcock
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In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and
what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
—Alfred Hitchcock
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Seeing a murder on television...can help work off one's antagonisms. And
if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
—Alfred Hitchcock
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Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it,
as well as contributing to the need for it.
—Alfred Hitchcock
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These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired
when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his
arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the
sound achieved by the pig.
—Alfred Hitchcock
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This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a
hardcover book—it makes a very poor doorstop.
—Alfred Hitchcock
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We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to
give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we
are like. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large
samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set
to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.
—Alfred Hitchcock
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An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes
we cannot bear to look out of; we blind them as quickly as possible.
—Russell Hoban
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Well, it don't make the sun shine, but at least it don't deepen the
shit.
—Straiter Empy (Russell Hoban, "Riddley Walker")
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I suppose if we couldn't react to things that didn't make sense, we
couldn't react to a lot of life.
—Hobbes, "Calvin & Hobbes"
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If you float on instinct alone, how can you calculate the buoyancy for the
computed load?
—Christopher Hodder-Williams
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I'm not very feminine. Tried it once, threw my back out, had to give it
up.
—Stephanie Hodge
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Some things have to be believed to be seen.
—Ralph Hodgson
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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
—Eric Hoffer
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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
—Eric Hoffer
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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each
other.
—Eric Hoffer
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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses
to frighten you.
—Eric Hoffer
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Stay away from needle drugs. Richard Nixon is the only dope worth
shooting.
—Abbie Hoffman
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The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
—Abbie Hoffman
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The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the
right.
—Quintin Hogg
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Dignity is like a top hat. Neither is very much use when you are standing
on it.
—Christopher Hollis
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It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling
exception, is composed of others.
—John Andrew Holmes
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A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original
dimension.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however
improbable, must be the truth.
—Sherlock Holmes, "The Sign of Four"
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BTW, does Jesus know you flame?
—Diane Holt to Ed Carp
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There it was, hidden in alphabetical order.
—Rita Holt
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American-style iced tea is the perfect drink for a hot, sunny day. It's
never really caught on in the UK, probably because the last time we had a
hot, sunny day was back in 1957.
—Tom Holt
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It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so
plainly twice in one evening, once by a beautiful girl and once by a dying
badger.
—Tom Holt, "Expecting Someone Taller"
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In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with
the giants on whose shoulders we stand.
—Gerald Holton
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About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the
ends.
—Herbert Hoover
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Justice is incidental to law and order.
—J. Edgar Hoover
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Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a
falsehood, isn't it?
—A. Hope
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A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't
need it.
—Bob Hope
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This is the closest we can get to "eff"-ing the ineffable!
—Steve Hopkins, religion professor, on mystical union with the
divine
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If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?
—Art Hoppe
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It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.
—Grace Murray Hopper
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As crazy as hauling timber into the woods.
—Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
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Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero!
(Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!)
—Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
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Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.
(It is sweet and honorable to die for one's country.)
—Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
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He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
—Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
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It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.
—Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
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It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.
—Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
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O imitators, you slavish herd!
—Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
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Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
—Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
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We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who,
content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied
guest.
—Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
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What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate
ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.
—Marina Horner
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Fortunately, psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner
conflicts. Life itself remains a very effective therapist.
—Karen Horney
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Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad
judgment.
—Jim Horning
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Oh, when I was in love with you,
Then I was clean and brave,
And miles around the wonder grew
How well did I behave.
And now the fancy passes by,
And nothing will remain,
And miles around they'll say that I
Am quite myself again.
—A. E. Housman
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You may easily play a joke on a man who likes to argue —agree with
him.
—Ed Howe
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Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.
—Edgar W. Howe
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I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb,
but faithful people build.
—Julia Ward Howe
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The way of the world is to praise dead saints and prosecute live ones.
—Nathaniel Howe
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I don't know, and in a way it doesn't matter. I know that the universe is
an evolving creature and we're all part of the evolution. And the most
important thing is to be glad to have been of service. Whether there's a
Disney World on the other side, I don't know. But I sure am glad that I'm
alive.
—Rev. Webster "Kit" Howell, Unitarian minister
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What kind of loving God would condemn anyone to eternal torment
anyway? Sounds fairly dysfunctional to me.
—Rev. Webster "Kit" Howell, Unitarian minister
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When I think about it, life has always been kind of absurd.
—Rev. Webster "Kit" Howell, Unitarian minister
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It's surprising how imaginative you can be with five people and ten
chairs.
—British stage actor David Howey
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Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car
could go straight upwards.
—Fred Hoyle
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There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a
plan for.
—Fred Hoyle
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Since the whole world cannot buy a single spring day, of what avail to
seek yellow gold?
—Hsi Pei Lan
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A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in the
experience.
—Elbert Hubbard
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A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.
—Elbert Hubbard
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Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.
—Elbert Hubbard
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Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate
the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
—Elbert Hubbard
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Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus
handicapped.
—Elbert Hubbard
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If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.
—Elbert Hubbard
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Life is just one damned thing after another.
—Elbert Hubbard
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Never explain—your friends do not need it and your enemies will not
believe you anyway.
—Elbert Hubbard
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the
work of one extraordinary man.
—Elbert Hubbard
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Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.
—Elbert Hubbard
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The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
—Elbert Hubbard
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The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be
done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
—Elbert Hubbard
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This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books
than we do for chewing gum.
—Elbert Hubbard
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Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
—F. M. Hubbard
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A good listener is usually thinking about something else.
—Kin Hubbard
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About the only thing we have left that actually discriminates in favor of
the plain people is the stork.
—Kin Hubbard
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An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be
postponed.
—Kin Hubbard
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Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or
haven't any sense.
—Kin Hubbard
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Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
—Kin Hubbard
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Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
—Kin Hubbard
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Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a
conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
—Kin Hubbard
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If there is anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the
public.
—Kin Hubbard
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It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth
have both failed.
—Kin Hubbard
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Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.
—Kin Hubbard
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Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's
overcharging you.
—Kin Hubbard
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Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.
—Kin Hubbard
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When a fellow says, "It ain't the money but the principle of the
thing," it's the money.
—Kin Hubbard
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A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
—Victor Hugo
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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has
come.
—Victor Hugo
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Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only
every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast
book.
—Victor Hugo, "Notre Dame de Paris"
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Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war
fought between men, between brothers?
—Victor Hugo
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Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.
—Victor Hugo
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Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
—Victor Hugo
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Habit is the nursery of errors.
—Victor Hugo
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Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only
more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and
easier.
Architecture was dethroned. The stone letters of Orpheus gave way
to the lead letters of Gutenburg.
The book will kill the edifice.
—Victor Hugo, "Notre Dame de Paris"
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the
streets and frighten the horses.
—Victor Hugo
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...society is guilty in not providing universal free education, and it
must answer for the night it produces. If the soul is left in darkness,
sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but
the one who has caused the darkness.
—Victor Hugo
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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
—Victor Hugo
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To love beauty is to see light.
—Victor Hugo
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To think of shadows is a serious thing.
—Victor Hugo
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human
heart, love.
—Victor Hugo
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Wisdom is a sacred communion.
—Victor Hugo
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In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends
upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in
very important respects, what they seem to be.
—Hubert H. Humphrey
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It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government
treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in
the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of
life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
—Hubert H. Humphrey
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The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken
seriously.
—Hubert Humphrey
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We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is
politics.
—Hubert H. Humphrey
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An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
—Robert A. Humphrey
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Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!)
Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace,
And saw, within the moonlight in his room,
Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom,
An angel writing in a book of gold.
Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold,
And to the presence in the room he said,
"What writest thou?" The vision raised its head,
And with a look made of all sweet accord,
Answered, "The names of those who love the Lord."
"And is mine one?" said Abou. "Nay not so,"
Replied the angel. Abou spoke more low,
But cheerly still; and said, "I pray thee then,
Write me as one that loves his fellow-men."
The angel wrote, and vanished. The next night
It came again with a great wakening light,
And showed the names whom love of God had blessed,
And lo! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest.
—Leigh Hunt, "Abou Ben Adhem"
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Whatever is not nailed down is mine. Whatever I can pry up is not nailed
down.
—Collis P. Huntingdon, railroad tycoon
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A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
—Fannie Hurst
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I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk.
—John Huston
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The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from
ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and
undernourishment.
—Robert Hutchins
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If we took Chaucer's writings at face value, we'd have to conclude he was
a complete drip.
—John Hutton
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely
consistent people are dead.
—Aldous Huxley
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Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens
to you.
—Aldous Huxley
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
—Aldous Huxley
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Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
—Aldous Huxley
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for
granted.
—Aldous Huxley
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Several excuses are always less convincing than one.
—Aldous Huxley
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means
for going backwards.
—Aldous Huxley
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The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of
the same name.
—Aldous Huxley
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The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved
wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.
—Aldous Huxley
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There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving,
and that's your own self.
—Aldous Huxley
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Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.
—Aldous Huxley
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Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last
fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.
—Julian Huxley
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Try to learn something about everything and everything about
something.
—Thomas Henry Huxley