Quotes with truth-and-a-half

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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo History or custom or social utility or some compelling sense of justice or sometimes perhaps a semi-intuitive apprehension of the pervading spirit of our law must come to the rescue of the anxious judge and tell him where to go.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Ben Bernanke History proves... that a smart central bank can protect the economy and the financial sector from the nastier side effects of a stock market collapse.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Barry Ritholtz History shows us that people are terrible about guessing what is going to happen - next week, next month, and especially next year.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Abba Eban History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
    Abba Eban
    Israeli diplomat and politician (1915 - 2002)
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  • Hubert Humphrey History teaches us that the great revolutions aren't started by people who are utterly down and out, without hope and vision. They take place when people begin to live a little better - and when they see how much yet remains to be achieved.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Aldous Huxley Hitler's vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording... Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Billy Boyd Hobbits are a lot like Scots. It's all about nature and enjoying their land, which is a very Scottish thing.
    Billy Boyd
    Scottish actor and musician (1968 - )
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  • Carl Sandburg Hog Butcher for the World,
    Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,
    Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler;
    Stormy, husky, brawling,
    City of the Big Shoulders.
    Chicago (1916)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Harry Emerson Fosdick Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye and you will be drawn toward it. Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.
    Harry Emerson Fosdick
    American minister (1878 - 1969)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Joan Lunden Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.
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  • Bruno Dumont 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.
    Bruno Dumont
    French film director and screenwriter (1958 - )
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  • Dorothy Parker Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Camille Paglia 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)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Marilyn Monroe Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul.
    Marilyn Monroe : In Her Own Words (1983)
    Marilyn Monroe
    American actress (1926 - 1962)
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  • Angela Carter Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Lydia M. Child Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings.
    Lydia M. Child
    American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor (1802 - 1880)
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  • Channing Pollock Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.
    Channing Pollock
    American actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • Alfred Nobel Home is where I work, and I work everywhere.
    Alfred Nobel
    Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist (1833 - 1896)
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  • Matthew Arnold Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
    Matthew Arnold
    British critic and poet (1822 - 1888)
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