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History is a pageant and not a philosophy.
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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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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.
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History is not a suicide note, it is a record of our survival.
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History is strewn thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill, but a lie, well told, is immortal.
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History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead.
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History suggests that attempts to privatize Medicare by relying on private companies to offer Medicare benefits in rural America simply will not work.
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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
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Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the viewer. They depress me.
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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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Home is not where you live but where they understand you.
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Home ownership was the fig leaf for the rise in subprime lending. But that was really about cash-out refinancings, not buying homes.
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Honest differences of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy making among free men.
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Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.
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Honest winter, snow clad and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; but that long deferment of the calendar's promise, that weeping loom of March and April, that bitter blast outraging the honor of May - how often has it robbed me of heart and hope.
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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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Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
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Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
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Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion.
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