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To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind. ↗

— Thomas Hood

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Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments. ↗

— Sidney Hook

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I hitchhiked, took trucks 'n' trains - anything that would pick me up. I stopped in Memphis for about six months and they found me and come got me. Stayed about a month an' split again. ↗

— John Lee Hooker

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Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment. ↗

— Bell Hooks

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I feel connected to the Second World War because my father lost his father in that war. So, through my dad and the effect it had on him of losing his father young, I always felt connected to the war. It goes back years, but it still feels to me as if we're completely living in it. ↗

— Tom Hooper

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If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament. ↗

— Tom Hooper

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In 'The King's Speech,' patriotism is utterly contained within a historical moment, the third of September, 1939, where the aggressor is clear, the fight is clear, it hasn't become complicated over time. ↗

— Tom Hooper

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My dad said, 'The thing that I was told that was really helpful was that I mustn't be afraid of the things I was afraid of when I was five years old'. The shock of his childhood had put him in this defensive crouch against the world, and he needed to know that he had a nice wife and kids and it wasn't the same any more. ↗

— Tom Hooper

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When I was growing up my mother would say, 'Your dad may have to learn about being a father because he lost his own and that would have affected him'. ↗

— Tom Hooper

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Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

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