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I am a fan of history.


Tom T. Hall


#fan #history #i #i am

Food might be more immediately important than history but if you don't understand what's been done to you - by your own people and the so-called "they" - you can never get around it.


Henry Hampton


#been #done #food #get #history

We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.


Terry Hands


#history #make #may #mistakes #moral

My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.


Thomas Hardy


#good #history #makes #peace #poor

Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.


J. D. Hayworth


#author #cite #does #from time to time #great

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.


William Hazlitt


#greatness #his #history #lifetime #man

But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about by the successive efforts of millions of individuals in the course of many generations.


Lafcadio Hearn


#brought #changes #course #efforts #generations

The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.


Arthur Henderson


#civilization #clearly #collapse #history #led

Those nations have a very great responsibility at this juncture of the world's affairs, for by throwing their joint weight into the scales of history on the right side, they may tip the balance decisively in favour of peace.


Arthur Henderson


#balance #decisively #favour #great #great responsibility

I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form.


George Hickenlooper


#art #art forms #art history #cinema #culmination






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