#act

My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#boat #current #does #flowing #going

A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#contents #creates #greater #itself #much

History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#causal #connections #creates #establishing #facts

We can't put up a protectionist dam on our own against the neo-liberal world market either. However, we can try, together with our European partners, to maintain the social character of Europe as much as possible. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#character #dam #either #europe #european

We emerged from the events of September 11 more steadfast in our beliefs, more courageous in our actions and more determined to protect our values than ever before. ↗

— Jane D. Hull

#before #beliefs #courageous #determined #emerged

Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with us. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

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We started giving presentations at practitioner conferences in 1986, and since then all of our derivatives research has been stimulated by contact with practitioners. ↗

— John Hull

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One problem with ideas, however valid, is that they are static and impersonal, whereas a person is active and dynamic. ↗

— William Hull

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You have to have pace, you have to have high production values, you have to have interesting graphics, and you have to have attractive people. CNN could afford not to be so obedient to those commands, and for a long time, it wasn't. ↗

— Brit Hume

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