Quotes 2501 till 2520 of 12730.
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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 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.
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 is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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Hold you there, neither a strange hand nor my own, neither heavy nor light shall touch my bum.
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Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.
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Hollywood is what you make it; you have to choose company with care because you become what they are.
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Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.
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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.
Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992) -
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in.
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Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.
The Lazarus Project (2009) 3 -
Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.
The Lazarus Project (2009) 3 -
Homeric mind is ingenuity, practical intelligence. There is no Rodin-like deep thinking, no mathematical or philosophical speculation. Odysseus thinks with his hands.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
Honestly, I still don't use my computer. My kids use the computer more than I do! I understand that a lot of people are into it, and I have days where I write and stuff, but it's really not for me. It's not my thing.
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Honestly, so much of my book is about the best things in my life have happened since I'm 40.
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Hong Kong girls have a genius sense of style. I came back to the States thinking no one here has any individuality. Or cute enough socks.
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Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
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Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.
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