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Heat produced by pressure expands to fill the mind available from which it can pass only to a cooler mind.
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Hello? Three words: Benicio Del Toro, which, incidentally, is Spanish for 'he wants me.' It is just ridiculous how hot he is. I feel the same way about Benicio as I did when I was a kid lusting after David Cassidy.
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Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doing, when it is a question of recollection. The mellow light which swims over the past, the beauty which suffuses even the commonest little figures of that
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Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
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Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.
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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.
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Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.
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High-energy collisions have led to the observation of many hundreds of new hadronic particle states. These new particles, which are generally unstable, appear to be just as fundamental as the neutron and the proton.
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Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth.
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His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son.
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His mind of man, a secret makes I meet him with a start he carries a circumference in which I have no part.
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His opinion of verses.
That he wrote all his first in prose, for so his master Camden had learned him. That verses stood by sense without either colours or accent; which yet other times he denied.Source: Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden -
His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy!
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His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.
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Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred; also to choose such an opportunity for writing as it may be lawful to think what they will, and write what they think, which is a rare happiness of the time.
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History is full of people who out of fear or ignorance or the lust for power have destroyed treasures of immeasurable value which truly belong to all of us. We must not let it happen again.
Source: Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990) 36 min 20 sec -
History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it.
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History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
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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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