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If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#desirability #essential #free #free society #justification

I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of algebraic equations, the general character of a pattern even where we are ignorant of the numerical values which will determine its particular manifestation. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#allows #character #describe #determine #equations

How I would describe my characters is absolutely different from how I would describe myself. ↗

— Salma Hayek

#characters #describe #different #how #i

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy. ↗

— Helen Hayes

#hardest #life #seventy #ten #those

The fire. The odor of burning juniper is the sweetest fragrance on the face of the earth, in my honest judgment; I doubt if all the smoking censers of Dante's paradise could equal it. One breath of juniper smoke, like the perfume of sagebrush after rain, evokes in magical catalysis, like certain music, the space and light and clarity and piercing strangeness of the American West. Long may it burn. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#fire #juniper #nature #nature-writing #equality

It is no use describing a house; the reader will fix the scene in some spot he knows himself. ↗

— J. Milton Hayes

#fix #himself #house #knows #reader

My district includes the two urban centers of Charlotte and Fayetteville, as well as large rural areas. Obviously, these diverse segments of North Carolina require different approaches to meeting current and future transportation demands. ↗

— Robin Hayes

#areas #carolina #centers #charlotte #current

Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides. ↗

— Junichiro Tanizaki

#dark #find #itself #light #only

The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy. ↗

— Rutherford B. Hayes

#boy #country #country boy #crowded #destroy

It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear...' ↗

— Rutherford B. Hayes

#desire #disappear #factor #good #good people