#history

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

— Herbert Hoover

#any #exclusive #honor #party #political

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#affectionate #after #american #conferred #greater

I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

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If you look at the history of the American capital market, there's probably no innovation more important than the idea of generally accepted accountancy principles. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

#american #capital #generally #history #idea

If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it. ↗

— David Horowitz

#birthday #carter #celebrate #congress #created

I think I was interested in history without knowing it and that became very clear when I arrived in France. Everything that I was really interested in was there, but I knew nothing, no education, no art education, no education beyond high school. It was extremely overwhelming and it still is. ↗

— John Howe

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Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture. ↗

— John Howe

#architecture #art #culture #enduring #europe

I heard the Beatles and the Stones, and Mom bought me an electric guitar. I played lead for four years and then switched to bass. One day someone suggested that I should sing, so I sheepishly stepped up to the microphone and the rest is rock history. ↗

— Glenn Hughes

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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#good #goodness #great #history #over