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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
"Conviction is a luxury for those on the sidelines."
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
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
"Like most poets, preacher, and metaphysicians, he burst into conclusions at a spark of evidence."
-- Henry Seidel Canby (on Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled by great ambitions.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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
Antisocial arrogance is only for those of us who deserve it.
Never underestimate the human capacity for cognitive dissonance.
"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")
Gina: "Isn't it customary for the suspect to leave the scene of the crime?"
Debra: "Definitely an amateur"
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