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I generally play strong people and scary people. ↗

— John Hawkes

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Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#before #could #einstein #fiction #general

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

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We know, in other words, the general conditions in which what we call, somewhat misleadingly, an equilibrium will establish itself: but we never know what the particular prices or wages are which would exist if the market were to bring about such an equilibrium. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

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We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which indeed we have only some very imprecise and general information. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

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Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

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For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#education #english #english literature #general #general knowledge