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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#doubt #fool #going #greatest #greatest obstacle

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#another #cemetery #colony #earliest #founders

Life is made up of marble and mud. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#made #marble #mud #up

People say history is boring, and that is true because people are boring. We haven't changed since time began. We're still the same. We've obviously made some changes. When we started, it was all about food, clothing and shelter. Now we watch 'Top Chef', 'Project Runway', and 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.' ↗

— Colin Hay

#because #began #boring #changed #changes

Carbon is probably a bit harder to wrap since it's procedural. ↗

— Bill Hayden

#carbon #harder #probably #procedural #since

Support for alternate languages will largely depend on the underlying OS. ↗

— Bill Hayden

#depend #languages #largely #support #underlying

I was very adept at acquiring languages. ↗

— Anna Held

#adept #i #languages #very

[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that the women's point of view is different, and frankly I do not think it is -- at least in my job. The line I always want to take is, that there is the 'point of view' of the reasonably enlightened human brain, and that this is the aspect of the matter which I am best fitted to uphold. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#clichés #double-standards #empowerment #equality #feminism

Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn. ↗

— B. R. Hayden

#great #hinges #human #love #sympathies

'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#been #emergencies #eroded #individual #individual liberty