#us

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

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I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result. ↗

— Laurence Housman

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It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#generous #greatest #minds #natural #reform

My brother used to say that I wrote faster than he could read. He wrote two books - of poems - better than all mine put together. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#books #brother #could #faster #i

My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#art #caused #direction #disappointment #drove

Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#become #by the time #capital #capital punishment #civilised

That was luck: I should not then have been a conscientious objector; but I am quite sure that the abominations of war would have made me one, as soon as I got to the front. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#am #been #conscientious #front #got

There are so many guys that come up and have strong hearts, but they just have to understand what the consequences are and how to execute the things that they learned to make themselves successful. ↗

— Allan Houston

#consequences #execute #guys #hearts #how

I just wanted to be a scientist. ↗

— Terrence Howard

#just #scientist #wanted

The importance to the nation of a generously adequate food supply for the coming year cannot be overemphasized, in view of the economic problems which may arise as a result of the entrance of the United States into the war. ↗

— David F. Houston

#arise #cannot #coming #economic #economic problems