#cal

Without natural gifts technical rules are useless. ↗

— Quintilian

#natural #rules #technical #useless #without

The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism. ↗

— Elizabeth Hardwick

#brutality #bureaucratic #city #coherent #come

There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn't true. ↗

— Ian Hart

#complete #eventually #gave #internet #know

Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the case of a physical theory, a scientist would certainly be expected to give precise information? ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#certainly #economics #expected #facts #give

Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#contending #discourses #instructed #needing #quickly

Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

#austere #constant #ever #government #learned

The critical period in matrimony is breakfast-time. ↗

— Alan Patrick Herbert

#matrimony #period

While Congress can't overturn the Supreme Court, we can provide carrots and sticks to prevent local governments from unfairly taking property from landowners. ↗

— Stephanie Herseth

#congress #court #governments #landowners #local

Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and disobey the orders of their government. That is the call to jihad, to several kinds of jihad. ↗

— Arthur Hertzberg

#bank #being #call #civil #civil war

The best is he who calls men to the best. And those who heed the call are also blessed. But worthless who call not, heed not, but rest. ↗

— Hesiod

#best #blessed #call #calls #heed