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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means. ↗

— Henry Hazlitt

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Any idealism is a proper subject for art. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

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The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

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Rape, mutilation, abuse, and theft are the natural outcome of a world in which force rules, in which human beings are objects. ↗

— Chris Hedges

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Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with law, as is the object of philosophical, philological, historical, moral, and social sciences to establish. ↗

— Hermann von Helmholtz

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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success. ↗

— Arthur Helps

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The objective is to enlarge the scope of your advantage which can only happen at someone else's expense. ↗

— Bruce Henderson

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If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual. ↗

— Frank Herbert

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This means that the mind or spirit is present anywhere, because it is nowhere attached to any particular place. And it can remain present because, even when related to this or that object, it does not cling to it by reflection and thus lose its original mobility. ↗

— Eugen Herrigel

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