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"Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best."
-- Henry Van Dyke
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
Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.
-- Mark Van Doren
Thinking always of trying to do more brings a state of mind in which nothing seems impossible.
-- Henry Ford
"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
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
"Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth."
-- Mark Van Doren
"Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable."
-- Henry Louis Mencken
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
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
-- Henry Peter Brougham
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

-- Henry Brooks Adams
"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
"When solving a kernel panic you must first ask yourself what you were doing that could possibly frighten an operating system."
-- Peter van der Linden
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
Every time I have to pipe something into awk I get this mental picture of a big fat seagull with stdin connected at the wrong end.
-- Arther van der Harg (a.s.r.)
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
The job of the poet is to render the world -- to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.
-- Mark Van Doren