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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Herbert Hoover Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Henry Miller Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Vaclav Havel Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Elie Wiesel Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Mignon McLaughlin Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.
    Source: The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • A. C. Swinburne Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all.
    A. C. Swinburne
    English poet and playwright (1837 - 1909)
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  • Carter Burwell Hopefully each film can be given a musical voice of its own, which is not to say that the instrumentation is always unique, but that the relationship between the sound and the image is unique.
    Carter Burwell
    American composer of film scores (1954 - )
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  • Bill Flores House Speaker Paul Ryan has actually started using a phrase lately - 'Raise our gaze.' He's exactly right, too. That's what I'd like to see in a presidential candidate. I don't like the bricks being thrown back and forth. That's not inspiring to me and to most of our electorate, I think.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Philo of Alexandria Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind.
    Philo of Alexandria
    Greek Jewish philosopher (20 - 50)
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  • Francis Bacon Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Arthur Hertzberg How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt.
    Arthur Hertzberg
    Jewish-American scholar and activist (1921 - 2006)
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  • Bob Kane How can an article about me or the Batman be the true story when I am not consulted or interviewed?
    Bob Kane
    American comic book writer, animator and artist (1915 - 1998)
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  • Henry David Thoreau How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Chief Seattle How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? Every part of the earth is sacred to my people.
    Chief Seattle
    Suquamish Tribe chief (1786 - 1866)
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  • John Milton How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, but musical as is Apollo's lute, and a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, where no crude surfeit reigns.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Birch Bayh How come life is so important in the nine months before birth, but then we sort of forget about the importance, we're not worried about whether that baby lives in poverty once he or she is born.
    Birch Bayh
    American politician (1928 - 2019)
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  • Arna Bontemps How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.
    Arna Bontemps
    American poet, novelist and librarian
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld How ever a brilliant an action, it should not be viewed as great unless it is the result of a great motive.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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