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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


#depression #distinction #ever #had #him

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


#art #became #beyond #clear #education

A chronicle is very different from history proper.


Howard Nemerov


#different #history #proper #very

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.


David Hume


#amuses #fancy #found #history #improves

There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.


David Hume


#any #delusion #education #found #good

Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite a bit of history and read that as much for pleasure as part of a curriculum.


John Hume


#also #awful #bit #curriculum #everybody

For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.


Hubert H. Humphrey


#destroy #end #first #first time #future

I got expelled from high school, and then did my exams from home. I decided, through that experience, that I was going to expediate my plan and didn't go to university. Instead, I went to a community college and studied the theory and history of film with the idea that I wanted to write and direct.


Charlie Hunnam


#community #community college #decided #did #direct






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