#hal

It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#come #countries #neighbours #other #our

Every day I shall put my papers in order and every day I shall say farewell. And the real farewell, when it comes, will only be a small outward confirmation of what has been accomplished within me from day to day. ↗

— Etty Hillesum

#been #comes #confirmation #day #day to day

We shall have to pass through many a valley, many a narrow defile. Many will grow tired on the way. Of course they will mostly be those who have no reason to do so. ↗

— Heinrich Himmler

#grow #many #mostly #narrow #no reason

I am amazed; until the day I die I shall wonder how Whittaker Chambers got into my house to use my typewriter. ↗

— Alger Hiss

#amazed #chambers #day #die #got

That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#all things #allow #contented #defense #down

At Bealltainn, or May Day, every effort was made to scare away the fairies, who were particularly dreaded at this season. In the West Highlands charms were used to avert their influence. In the Isle of Man the gorse was set alight to keep them at a distance. In some parts of Ireland the house was sprinkled with holy water to ward off fairy influence. These are only a mere handful out of the large number of references available, but they seem to me to reveal an effort to avoid the attentions of discredited deities on occasions of festival once sacred to them. The gods duly return at the appointed season, but instead of being received with adoration, they are rebuffed by the descendants of their former worshippers, who have embraced a faith which regards them as demons. In like manner the fairies in Ireland were chased away from the midsummer bonfires by casting fire at them. At the first approach of summer, the fairy folk of Scotland were wont to hold a "Rade," or ceremonial ride on horseback, when they were liable to tread down the growing grain. ↗

— Lewis Spence

#demons #faires #fairy #gods #halloween

In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves. ↗

— David Hockney

#artists #bit #challenge #difficult #fact

Our single greatest challenge is the ability to move power to markets outside North Dakota. ↗

— John Hoeven

#challenge #dakota #greatest #greatest challenge #markets

If he had listened to some of his advisors and had tried to make the Marshall Plan a political dumping ground for unqualified politicians, it couldn't have been a success. ↗

— Paul Hoffman

#dumping #ground #had #his #listened

The magic was in the Marshall Plan itself. It provided an opportunity for appealing and constructive work. In a sense, the mission chiefs were given the opportunity to help act as architects for the new Europe that was envisioned. ↗

— Paul Hoffman

#appealing #architects #chiefs #constructive #envisioned