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Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.
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Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money; they don't give some value to friendships and it can be depressing.
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Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
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Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
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High above the lake a bomber flies.
From the rowing boats
Children look up, women, an old man. From a distance
They appear like young starlings, their beaks
Wide open for food.Source: Poems, 1913-1956 This Summers Sky [Der Himmel dieses Sommers], (195 -
Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.
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Historically, professors have defended tenure as a way to protect their individualistic thought. But tenure can also be used as a club to wield against the powerless.
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History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one is tempted to say, too much. Decay and destruction have hardly begun their beneficent work.
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History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
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History is but the record of the public and official acts of human beings. It is our object, therefore, to humanize our history and deal with people past and present; people who ate and possibly drank; people who were born, flourished and died; not grave tragedians, posing perpetually for their photographs.
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Hobbits are a lot like Scots. It's all about nature and enjoying their land, which is a very Scottish thing.
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Hollywood movies of the Fifties, like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur, with their epic clash of pagan and Judeo-Christian cultures, tell more about art and society than the French-infatuated ideologues who have made a travesty of the best American higher criticism.
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Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the executioners in Hell who, they say, incessantly renew old wounds and concentrate their attention on that area of it that is already lacerated.
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Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversight responsibilities and with pursuing a principled course of action even in the face of everyone's short-attention spans.
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How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
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How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.
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How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.
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How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!
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