#ff

Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention. ↗

— Keith Henson

#anyone #attention #aware #being #effects

Genetic studies in Iceland have found that many of the women who were the founding stock of Iceland came from England and what is now France. Some were probably captured and carried off in Viking raids only 40 generations ago. ↗

— Keith Henson

#came #captured #carried #england #found

Halfway through any work, one is often tempted to go off on a tangent. Once you have yielded, you will be tempted to yield again and again... Finally, you would only produce something hybrid. ↗

— Barbara Hepworth

#any #finally #go #halfway #hybrid

This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn't any Board, and now there isn't any Trade. ↗

— A. P. Herbert

#any #board #grossly #high #now

If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

#cannot #certainly #civilization #effort #example

It is the small owner who offers the only really profitable and reliable material for taxation. He is made for taxation. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

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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

#certain #create #despot #despotic #government

Truth suffers from too much analysis. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#much #suffers #too #too much #truth

I always felt I was living in two worlds. One was the Mexican world, because nearly everybody I knew, relatives and cousins and kids in the neighbourhood, were Mexican. Then school was a different world. It was ethnically mixed. ↗

— Gilbert Hernandez

#because #cousins #different #different world #ethnically

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. ↗

— James Herriot

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