#ned

Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree with - the scarlet letter A, and the stocks and the dunking board came from that. That puritanism is still there. ↗

— Hugh Hefner

#around #board #came #england #escape

When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated. ↗

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#assertion #be careful #careful #designated #interests

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it. ↗

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#anything #governments #history #learned #never

When something disappointing happened, my mother would remind me not to let that become my focus. There's still so much to be grateful for. ↗

— Katherine Heigl

#become #disappointing #focus #grateful #happened

Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#books #burned #end #in the end #men

The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England. ↗

— Peter Stuyvesant

#commissioners #design #directed #england #force

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#deep #empty #fed #i #learned

Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#been #columnists #grass #had #him

I got back into the position of taking care of my husband, which is what I'd learned that I couldn't really do: you can love and make things okay to a certain extent, but you can't fix. I didn't quite learn that until the kayaking incident. It became so clear then. ↗

— Mariel Hemingway

#became #care #certain #certain extent #clear

I've known for years that you're supposed to be present. I know that thinking about what's happened or thinking about what I want is not going to get me anywhere, but until I quit doing it I'm not present. ↗

— Mariel Hemingway

#anywhere #doing #get #going #happened