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Thinking always of trying to do more brings a state of mind in which nothing seems impossible.
-- Henry Ford
Be one of those upon whom nothing is lost.
-- Henry James
"We need a president who's fluent in at least one language."
-- Buck Henry
A bit of tolerance is worth a megabyte of flaming.
-- Henry Spencer
The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
-- Henry Becque
Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau
"If misery loves company, misery has company enough."
-- Henry David Thoreau
"Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals."
-- Henry Spencer
There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.
-- Henry Miller ("The Colossus of Maroussi", 1941)
"Speak when you're angry and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret."
-- Henry Ward Beecher
"Conviction is a luxury for those on the sidelines."
No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.
-- Henry Kissinger
"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all."
-- Henry David Thoreau
"Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable."
-- Henry Louis Mencken
"Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best."
-- Henry Van Dyke
Writing novice-friendly documentation is a lot of work. We'd like to do it someday. Holding of breath is not advised.
-- Henry Spencer
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
-- Henry David Thoreau
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

-- Henry Brooks Adams
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
-- Henry Peter Brougham
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled by great ambitions.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Like most poets, preacher, and metaphysicians, he burst into conclusions at a spark of evidence."
-- Henry Seidel Canby (on Ralph Waldo Emerson)
I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
-- Henry David Thoreau
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
-- Henry David Thoreau
The longer I live, the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
Antisocial arrogance is only for those of us who deserve it.
"I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life; to put to route all that was not life and not, when I had come to die, discover that I had not lived."
-- Henry David Thoreau ("Walden")
Never underestimate the human capacity for cognitive dissonance.
Gina: "Isn't it customary for the suspect to leave the scene of the crime?"
Debra: "Definitely an amateur"
(Empire Records)