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History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
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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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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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Hold you there, neither a strange hand nor my own, neither heavy nor light shall touch my bum.
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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.
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Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the executioners in Hell who, they say, incessantly renew old wounds and concentrate their attention on that area of it that is already lacerated.
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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.
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Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversight responsibilities and with pursuing a principled course of action even in the face of everyone's short-attention spans.
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How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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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.
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How does it feel? To be on your own, with no direction home, like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone?
Highway 61 Revisited (1965) -
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
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How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.
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How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.
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How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!
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How much abuse is a fighter expected to endure before he can be allowed to show some concern for his own welfare? Anyone who has been around fighters knows they all share the same secret: They are more afraid of embarrassment and humiliation than injury. Do fans and writers use this fact against them in what we celebrate or criticize?
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How odd it is that we so often weep for each other's distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own!
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How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
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How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
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However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit.
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