Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Quotations Index - H


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David Hackett

* "Most Americans do not think of liberty and freedom as a set of texts, or a source of controversies or a sequence of controversies or a system of abstractions.  They understand these ideas in another way, as inherited values that they have learned early in life and deeply believe."
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Everett Hale

"I am only one, but I am one.  I cannot do everything, but I can do something.  What I can do, I should do and, with the help of God, i will do!"
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Fleet Admiral William Frederick Halsey Jr.

* "There are no great men, just great challenges which ordinary men, out of necessity, are forced by circumstances to meet."
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Judge Learned Hand

"For myself, it would be most irksome to be ruled by a bevy of Platonic Guardians, even if I knew how to choose them, which I assuredly do not."
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Robert J. Hanlon

* "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
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Sydney J. Harris

"The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers."
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Roland H. Hartley
Washington State Governor

* "Finding new sources of revenue is ever fraught with the danger of opening up new avenues of expenditure. In dealing with the tax question, our first task is to reduce the cost of conducting the public’s business, not to devise new ways and means of raising revenue to meet the mounting cost of government."

* "We may as well face the fact, and face it squarely, that we are too much governed. The agencies of government have multiplied, their ramifications extended, their powers enlarged, and their sphere widened, until the whole system is top-heavy. We are drifting into dangerous and insidious paternalism, submerging the self-reliance of the citizen, and weakening the responsibility and stifling the initiative of the individual. We suffer not from too little legislation, but from too much. We need fewer enactments and more repeals."
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Jessica Hatchigan

"There's an important difference between giving up and letting go."
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Stephen Hawking

* "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."
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Louise Hay

"Your thoughts and beliefs of the past have created this moment, and all the moments up to this moment. What you are now choosing to believe and think and say will create the next moment and the next day and the next month and the next year."
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Friedrich Hayek

* "There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal."
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Judge John C. Hayes

“We cannot rewrite history, but we can right history.”  [vacating the sentences for the men known as the Friendship 9, who served a month of hard labor for sitting at a whites-only lunch counter in Rock Hill, S.C., in 1961 (28 Jan 2015)]
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Robert Heinlein

* "Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness. At all events, the two latter are of less frequent occurrence."
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Werner Heisenberg

"What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning."
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Joseph Heller

"There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind."
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Alvin Hellerstein
Federal District Court Judge

* "America reinforces its values and thus its security by being transparent about even the worst abuses of those values, not by hiding the evidence deep in a file drawer."
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Nelson Henderson

"The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit."
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Matthew Henry

* "It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with."
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Frank Herbert

"By the time we awaken faintly to the awareness that we have been socially conditioned, we find ourselves so indoctrinated that it's difficult, if not impossible, to break the old patterns...Survival pressures demanding that we evolve, grow, and change, however, continue to proliferate. We don't want to change, but the floodgates open abruptly and we are overwhelmed." ~ Frank Herbert

"Does a population have informed consent when that population is not taught the inner workings of its monetary system, and then is drawn, all unknowing, into economic adventures?"

"Don't give over all of your critical faculties to people in power, no matter how admirable those people may appear to be." ~ Frank Herbert

"Mine religion for what is good and avoid what is deleterious. Don't condemn people who need it. Be very careful when that need becomes fanatical."

"Power structures tend to attract people who want power for the sake of power and that a significant proportion of such people are imbalanced — in a word, insane." ~ Frank Herbert

"Technology is both a tool for helping humans and for destroying them. This is the paradox of our times which we're compelled to face." ~ Frank Herbert

* "The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action in mind."

"The thing we must do intensely is be human together. People are more important than things. We must get together. The best thing humans can have going for them is each other. We have each other. We must reject everything which humiliates us. Humans are not objects of consumption. We must develop an absolute priority of humans ahead of profit — any humans ahead of any profit. Then we will survive. … Together." ~ Frank Herbert

"When a wise man does not understand, he says: "I do not understand." The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom." ~ Frank Herbert
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George Herbert

"He that's foolish in the fault, let him be wise in the punishment."

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Hermann Hesse

"Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go."
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Napoleon Hill

"The world has a habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going."

* "Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another."

"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve."
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Sir Edmund Percival Hillary

"It's not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves."  [ascribed]
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Sherlock Holmes
[fictional character]

"...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience."

"The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars,
 nor its great scholars great men."
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Ibrahim Hooper
[Spokesperson for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)]

"I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the US to be Islamic at some time in the future, but I'm not going to do anything violent to promote that. I'm going to use education."
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Horace

"He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin!"
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Stanley Horowitz

"Nothing lowers the level on conversation more than raising the voice."
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Edgar Watson Howe

"If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it."
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Tehyi Hsieh

"Lean too much on the approval of people, and it becomes a bed of thorns."
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Elbert Green Hubbard

"Cultivate only the habits that you are willing to master you."

"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."

"To escape criticism: Do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."
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Laura Hudson
[Online entertainment and culture editor at Wired Magazine]

* "The hallmark of bullying isn't just being mean. It also involves a power differential: The bully is the one who's punching down."
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Victor Hugo

"The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved."
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Jonathan Lockwood Huie

"A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect."
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Robert M. Hutchins

"To solve a problem it is necessary to think.  It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect."
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Aldous Huxley

"Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you."
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Thomas Henry Huxley

"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not."
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