#ny

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#any #bewildered #considerable #face #finally

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

I'd love to have a hit record. I don't believe anyone that says they wouldn't like that. ↗

— Colin Hay

#believe #hit #hit record #i #like

It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I've always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way. ↗

— Colin Hay

#anyone #connection #doubt #else #fancied

The Men at Work thing is always there, it's always going to be there. It's not something I consciously think that much about anymore. The thing that stays with you is the songs, which is a good thing for me, because the songs are the things that stand the test of time. ↗

— Colin Hay

#about #always #anymore #because #consciously

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it. ↗

— S. I. Hayakawa

#culture #else #everybody #everybody else #given

Writers say many true things about their own experiences with publicity and promotion. ↗

— Teresa Nielsen Hayden

#experiences #many #own #promotion #publicity

[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

It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#best #ends #how #importance #individuals

The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations that any suggestion that there may be some limits to it is bound to arouse suspicion. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#arouse #bound #course #exceeded #expectations