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I was 18 when I first visited London, I'm very provincial like that, but I must confess the moment I got to America I thought: This is the place. It was more open, with 24-hour cities and pubs and restaurants that didn't close.


David Hockney


#cities #close #confess #first #got

The Europeans had made two promises to the United States if Marshall Plan help was forthcoming. The first promise was maximum self-help on the part of every country; and second, maximum mutual aid.


Paul Hoffman


#country #europeans #every #first #forthcoming

America stands as a beacon of hope and the possibility of a better life - but it is also a nation where nearly 1 in 4 children live in poverty.


Chris Van Hollen


#america #beacon #better #better life #children

In fact, jazz has such a great feeling and great emotional content that it really doesn't require you to have technical understanding of it. I think you just have to allow your feelings to go with the music and you will find yourself carried along by it fairly quickly.


Dave Holland


#along #carried #content #emotional #fact

We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody.


J. Edgar Hoover


#clear #condemn #only #organization

We do have some assistance from the World Bank but not from the IMF. We are not borrowing yet, but we are considering, in the future, borrowing from the Kuwait Fund to support our infrastructure development.


Jose Ramos-Horta


#bank #borrowing #considering #development #fund

The hate and scorn showered on us Negro officers by our fellow Americans convinced me that there was no sense in my dying for a world ruled by them. I made up my mind that if I got through this war I would study law and use my time fighting for men who could not strike back.


Charles Hamilton Houston


#convinced #could #dying #fellow #fellow americans

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.


Laurence Housman


#arrested #avoid #been #bound #charged

Tomorrow I shall be sixty-nine, but I do not seem to care. I did not start the affair, and I have not been consulted about it at any step.


William Dean Howells


#affair #any #been #care #consulted

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.


Elbert Hubbard


#ignorance #knowledge #opinions #perpetual #recipe






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