#history

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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I've always felt that distant train whistles heard in the dead of night are the universe's way of letting us know the best days are neither ahead nor behind us...they're happening right now, cradled in the palms of our hands. But that doesn't change the fact that the whiskey, weed, and romance eventually runs out and the night will soon turn to day. ↗

— Dave Matthes

#daydreaming #death #history #innocence #love

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

— Tom Hooper

#emotions #extraordinary #history #intensification #look

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

#depression #distinction #ever #had #him

History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

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In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man's inheritance from his past homes than by the physical features of his present home. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

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Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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