#we

Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#contemporary #ethical #literature #shown #signs

French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery, about improper relations between the sexes, about many things which the English public would not allow. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#adultery #after #allow #between #consequently

Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#america #chance #dignitaries #find #formerly

The great principle of Western society is that competition rules here as it rules in everything else. The best man - that is to say, the strongest and cleverest - is likely to get the best woman, in the sense of the most beautiful person. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#beautiful person #best #best man #cleverest #competition

The shortest answer is doing the thing. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#doing #shortest #thing

The English race is the best at weeping and the worst at laughing. ↗

— Thomas Hearne

#english #laughing #race #weeping #worst

I have to say that when I was young, when any politician was talking I wasn't even interested. Maybe they were saying some nice stuff, but then if you put Michael Jordan on TV, I was interested! ↗

— Thierry Henry

#even #i #interested #jordan #maybe

I mean, they call it Stockholm Syndrome and post traumatic stress disorder. And, you know, I had no free will. I had virtually no free will until I was separated from them for about two weeks. ↗

— Patty Hearst

#call #disorder #free #free will #had

And, quite frankly, I fully expected to be charged with murder, because they weren't charging anybody. I did it in terms of, I felt like I was throwing down the gauntlet saying look, this is what happened. There's a family out there that needed to know what happened. ↗

— Patty Hearst

#because #charged #charging #did #down

Well, you know, they were - they were a terrorist group. They - when I was kidnapped they published all of their statements about their war that they declared on the United States. ↗

— Patty Hearst

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