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Radio is a really strange business now, too. There's a very narrow door and a very few people control what gets played. ↗


— Taylor Hanson


#control #door #few #few people #gets

It was a great time here in the States this year, and definitely I feel like I'm playing well again. I gained a lot of confidence in the last couple of weeks, and I just have to, you know, keep going and keep the momentum now. ↗


— Daniela Hantuchova


#confidence #couple #definitely #feel #gained

Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution. ↗


— Garrett Hardin


#earth #exhausting #favors #indeed #our

But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere. ↗


— Garrett Hardin


#contradiction #elsewhere #fire #fundamentalists #good

Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart. ↗


— Garrett Hardin


#continuity #ecology #heart #serves

Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed. ↗


— Garrett Hardin


#constantly #counteract #education #generations #inexorable

However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious. ↗


— Garrett Hardin


#deeper #ecology #economics #fundamental #held

Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable. ↗


— Garrett Hardin


#behavior #cesspool #commons #conditions #does

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ↗


— Elizabeth Hardwick


#consoles #distracts #excites #experience #gift

There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds. ↗


— G. H. Hardy


#criticism #explain #exposition #justifiable #make






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