The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.

Sydney J. Harris (1917-1986) Anglo-American columnist, journalist, author
(Attributed)
 
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If we stop caring about our heroes, we stop caring about what they died for.

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Ralph Harris
 
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You can’t run away from trouble. There ain’t no place that far.

Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908) American writer
Uncle Remus

May actually be from the movie Song of the South (1946), based on Harris' tales.
 
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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra May Harris (1869-1935) American author [nee White]
(Attributed)
 
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The problem with the postmodern idea that “truth is subjective” is the way most of its adherents (the louder ones, anyway) seem to think that means reality — objective reality, where atoms are combined to form certain shapes and therefore are not combined to form certain other shapes — is therefore as fungible as their own mushy thought processes. Wiser minds know that facts are facts, even if imperfect humans cannot perceive them with 100-percent accuracy and therefore misinterpret or deny them. That’s why the goal should be to get as close to the truth as possible, not to just throw up one’s hands and claim that there mustn’t be any truth to get close to.

Andrea Harris (contemp.) American journalist, commentator
“The Spleenville Journal” (24 Dec. 2002)

http://www.spleenville.com/blog/archives/000648.html
 
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Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.

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Sir John Harrington (1561-1612) English courtier, writer, inventor (also "John Harington")
Epigrams, Book iv, Epistle 5 “Of Treason”
 
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The law is but words and paper without the hands and swords of men.

James Harrington (1611-1677) English political theorist
The Commonwealth of Oceana (1656)
 
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Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one’s horse as he is leaping.

Julius Hare (1795-1855) English cleric, theologian
Guesses at Truth, First Series [with Augustus Hare] (1827)
 
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If someone said on Christmas Eve,
‘Come see the oxen kneel . . .’
I should go with him in the gloom,
Hoping it might be so.

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) English novelist, poet
“Oxen” (1915)
 
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Some folks want their luck buttered.

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) English novelist, poet
The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886)
 
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It is never worth a first class man’s time to express a majority opinion. By definition, there are plenty of others to do that.

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G. H. Hardy (1877-1947) British mathematician [Godfrey Harold Hardy]
(Attributed)

Quoted by C.P. Snow in the 1992 forward to Hardy's A Mathematician's Apology (1941). (Full text) Also sometimes quoted as: "It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that."
 
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Your belief determines your action, and your action determines your results. But first you have to believe.

Mark Victor Hansen (b. 1948) American writer, motivational speaker
(Attributed)
 
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That’s what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end.

Lise Hand (contemp.) British journalist
(Attributed)

Describing the late Irish journalist Veronica Guerin
 
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First as to Speech. That privilege rests upon the premise that there is no proposition so uniformly acknowledged that it may not be lawfully challenged, questioned, and debated. It need not rest upon the further premise that there are no propositions that are not open to doubt; it is enough, even if there are, that in the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.

Learned Hand (1872-1961) American jurist
“The Guardians,” Oliver Wendell Holmes Lecture #3, Harvard University (1958)
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Speaking of the First Amendment to the US Constitution.
 
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Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers; to follow one’s hunch is usually better than lying doggo, and rough generalizations that have worked well in the past easily easily take on the authority of universals. It does violence to our inner being to be obliged to give a hearing to opinions widely at variance with those we are accustomed to, and to come to a conclusion unweighted by desire.

Learned Hand (1872-1961) American jurist
“At Fourscore,” speech, Harvard Club of New York (1952-01-18)
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First published in the Harvard Alumni Bulletin (23 Feb 1952).
 
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I shall ask no more than that you agree with Dean Inge that even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it beats breaking them.

Learned Hand (1872-1961) American jurist
“Democracy: Its Presumptions and Realities,” speech, Federal Bar Association, Washington, DC (1932-03-08)
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First printed in the Federal Bar Association Journal (Mar 1932).
 
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I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes; believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. While it lies there it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.

Learned Hand (1872-1961) American jurist
“The Spirit of Liberty,” speech, “I Am an American Day,” New York (1941-05-21)
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The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the mind of other men and women; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which weighs their interests alongside its own without bias; the spirit of liberty remembers that not even a sparrow falls to earth unheeded; the spirit of liberty is the spirit of Him who, near two thousand years ago, taught mankind that lesson it has never learned but never quite forgotten; that there may be a kingdom where the least shall be heard and considered side by side with the greatest.

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Learned Hand (1872-1961) American jurist
“The Spirit of Liberty,” speech, “I Am an American Day,” New York (1941-05-21)
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When a man’s partner is killed, he’s supposed to do something about it.

Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) American author, screenwriter, political activist
The Maltese Falcon (1940)
 
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We cannot afford to forget any experience, not even the most painful.

Dag Hammarskjöld (1905-1961) Swedish diplomat, author, UN Secretary-General (1953-61)
Markings (1951)
 
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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

Dag Hammarskjöld (1905-1961) Swedish diplomat, author, UN Secretary-General (1953-61)
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Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible

Dag Hammarskjöld (1905-1961) Swedish diplomat, author, UN Secretary-General (1953-61)
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Never take your eyes off the vampire in front of you to glance at the werewolf in back of you. One problem at a time.

Laurell K Hamilton
Laurell K. Hamilton (b. 1963) American writer [nee Laurell Kaye Klein]
The Lunatic Caf
 
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Is life supposed to stop because you did something horrible? I’ll tell you the real horrible truth, Anita. No matter what you do or how bad you feel about it, life just goes on. Life doesn’t give a fuck that you’re sorry or upset or deranged or tormented. Life just goes on, and you gotta go on with it, or sit in the middle of the road and feel sorry for yourself.

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Laurell K. Hamilton (b. 1963) American writer [nee Laurell Kaye Klein]
Blue Moon (1998)
 
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I didn’t question God’s wisdom. I figured He knew what He was doing, and if He didn’t, I really didn’t want to know.

Laurell K Hamilton
Laurell K. Hamilton (b. 1963) American writer [nee Laurell Kaye Klein]
Burnt Offerings (1998)
 
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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804) American statesman, author
The Federalist #51 (6 Feb 1788)
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A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.

Joseph Hall (1574-1656) English clergyman and satirist
(Attributed)
 
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Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three

Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909) American clergyman and author
(Attributed)
 
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Reality is the cage of those who lack imagination.

J.B.S. Haldane (1892-1964) English geneticist [John Burden Sanderson Haldane]
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INTERVIEWER: What has the study of biology taught you about the Creator, Dr. Haldane?
HALDANE: I’m not sure, but He seems to be inordinately fond of beetles.

J.B.S. Haldane (1892-1964) English geneticist [John Burden Sanderson Haldane]
(Attributed)

Variations are given in a variety of sources. A direct, citeable quote on the theme can be found in J.B.S. Haldane, What is Life? (1949):
The Creator would appear as endowed with a passion for stars, on the one hand, and for beetles on the other, for the simple reason that there are nearly 300,000 species of beetle known, and perhaps more, as compared with somewhat less than 9,000 species of birds and a little over 10,000 species of mammals. Beetles are actually more numerous than the species of any other insect order. That kind of thing is characteristic of nature.
 
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I have no doubt that in reality the future will be vastly more surprising than anything I can imagine. Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.

J.B.S. Haldane (1892-1964) English geneticist [John Burden Sanderson Haldane]
“On Being the Right Size,” Possible Worlds and Other Papers (1927)

Sometimes attributed to Arthur Stanley Eddington.
 
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No vacation goes unpunished.

Karl Hakkarainen (contemp.) American technical consultant, writer
(Attributed)
 
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That’s not a lie, it’s a terminological inexactitude.

Alexander Haig (1924-2010) American general and bureaucrat
TV interview (1983)
 
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Movements born in hatred very quickly take on the characteristics of the thing they oppose.

John S. Habgood (1927-2019) British ecclesiastic, Archbishop of York
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The idea that an arbitrary naive human should be able to properly use a given tool without training or understanding is even more wrong for computing than it is for other tools (e.g. automobiles, airplanes, guns, power saws).

Doug A. Gwyn (contemp.) American computer scientist
(Attributed)
 
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UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.

Doug A. Gwyn (contemp.) American computer scientist
(Attributed)
 
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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Doug Gwyn
Doug Gwyn (b. 1959) American minister, theologian, author
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With all the crap I have to put up with, I’ve stockpiled enough Karma to be Queen of the World in my next life.

Adrienne E. Gusoff (contemp.) American humorist, greeting card writer
Mentioned in personal e-mail to me
 
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Just when you realize life’s a bitch, it has puppies

Adrienne E. Gusoff (contemp.) American humorist, greeting card writer
Mentioned in personal e-mail to me
 
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Grandma always admonished me to be a “good girl.” “Why should he buy the cow when he gets the milk for free?” she’d ask. And I’d remind her that once he owns the cow, he can turn her into hamburger.

Adrienne E. Gusoff (contemp.) American humorist, greeting card writer
Mentioned in personal e-mail to me
 
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Girls just want to have funds.

Adrienne E. Gusoff (contemp.) American humorist, greeting card writer
Mentioned in personal e-mail to me
 
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If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in
another way.

Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff (1873-1949) Russian teacher, writer
(Attributed)
 
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Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.

John Gunther (1901-1970) American journalist
(Attributed)
 
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Eighty percent of rules of thumb only apply twenty percent of the time.

Sig Lines
 
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Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Che Guevara (1928-1967) Argentine revolutionary [b. Ernesto Guevara da la Serna]
(Attributed)
 
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Government loses its claim to legitimacy when it fails to fulfill its obligations.

Martin L. Gross (1925-2013) American writer
The Government Racket (1992)
 
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We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

Martin L. Gross (1925-2013) American writer
A Call for Revolution (1993)
 
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We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty.

Angelina Grimké Weld (1805-1879) American abolitionist, women's rights activist
Anti-Slavery Examiner, “Appeal to the Christian Women of the South” (Sep. 1836)
 
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I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we are praying for.

Angelina Grimké Weld (1805-1879) American abolitionist, women's rights activist
“Appeal to the Christian Women of the South,” Anti-Slavery Examiner (Sep 1836)
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Every time I try to define a perfectly stable person, I am appalled by the dullness of that person.

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J. D. Griffin
 
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Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.

Germaine Greer (b. 1939) Australian-English feminist, reformer, author, educator
“Security,” The Female Eunuch (1970)

Sometimes cited: "Security is when everything is settled, when nothing happens to you; security is the denial of life."
 
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No statement, theological or otherwise, should be made that would not be credible in the presence of burning children.

Irving Yitzchak Greenberg (b. 1933) American rabbi, scholar, author
(Attributed)
 
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I’ve got a simple rule: if I can do it, it’s not art.

Rick Green (b. 1953) Canadian comedian
(Attributed)
 
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Full many a gem of purest ray serene
The dark, unfathomed caves of ocean bear;
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.

Thomas Gray (1716-1771) English poet
“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,” st. 14, l. 53ff (1751)
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The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

Robert Graves
Robert Graves (1895-1985) English poet, novelist, critic
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