#ip

It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in the history of mankind. There are good things in that, but there are also terrible things. The worst of it is, that we find it hard to give ourselves to the cultural process. ↗

— Larry Harvey

#also #avoids #cultural #find #give

Most of us wander in and out of one another's lives until not death, but distance, does us part--time and space and the heart's weariness are the blander executioners of human connection. ↗

— Gail Caldwell

#death

One way we gave small businesses more money to invest was by extending tax provisions on expensing. This allows businesses to immediately write off things like equipment, without being burdened by depreciation requirements. ↗

— Dennis Hastert

#being #burdened #businesses #depreciation #equipment

Programmers and marketing people know how to get into your subconscious - they spend millions of dollars researching colors, shapes, designs, symbols, that affect your preferences, and they can make you feel warm, trusting, like buying. They can manipulate you. ↗

— Richard Hatch

#buying #colors #designs #dollars #feel

My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I don't even notice it any more. It's just my reality. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#been #even #i #just #long

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#better #dip #fresh #go #good

A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than you inquire when they'd like to shorten sail. ↗

— Sterling Hayden

#caucus #crew #democracy #go #inquire

I don't know, I feel like as time has gone on, hip-hop has become really redundant and repetitive. ↗

— Angel Haze

#feel #gone #hip-hop #i #i feel

The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#despise #despised #dupe #enough #fool

I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#center #i #life #original #out