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That appropriation of resources and the transformation of them into goods and services through the European production system characterized, and characterizes to this day, all industrial systems including the information age.


Paul Hawken


#appropriation #characterized #characterizes #day #european

I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal.


John C. Hawkes


#fiction #i #interested #more #not interested

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

The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences.


Friedrich August von Hayek


#conformity #consequences #credit #false #gain

As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.


Lafcadio Hearn


#advantage #being #better #circumstances #civilized

I want to get a vending machine, with fun sized candy bars, and the glass in front is a magnifying glass. You'll be mad, but it will be too late.


Mitch Hedberg


#candy #front #fun #get #glass

Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.


Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel


#been #come #conditions #founded #heroes

I can't cultivate a relationship with my child if it's between takes. I tried that on a movie and realized, 'This is not going to work.' It will work some of the year, but not 12 months a year.


Katherine Heigl


#child #cultivate #going #i #i tried

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.


Carolyn Heilbrun


#acquire #always #criticized #had #ironically

There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.


Robert A. Heinlein


#civilized #cured #endure #even #food






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