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Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history. ↗

— Russell Hoban

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A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#conscience #erroneous #his #judgment #man

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#authors #competition #dead #envy #living

The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#creature #living #living creature #man #only

All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose. ↗

— David Hockney

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Make a careful list of all things done to you that you abhorred. Don't do them to others, ever. ↗

— Dee Hock

#all things #careful #done #ever #list

I paint what I like, when I like and where I like. ↗

— David Hockney

#like #paint #where

For a while, I thought a lot about lineage. Where do I belong? Who am I standing next to? ↗

— Jim Hodges

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Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless. ↗

— J. G. Holland

#foolish #nothing #obstinately #opinion #pride

Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow your own trumpet and explain yourself, which I think has been slightly forgotten. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

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