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I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#admire #appalling #assembly #easy #everything

From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#application #critical #demands #judgment #looks

I feel, first of all, very privileged that these people think enough of me that they made me commissioner. And it's almost like, as Yogi Berra said, 'deja vu all over again.' ↗

— Bobby Hull

#almost #commissioner #deja #deja vu #enough

My job is to suggest and ratify and use any expertise that I might have gained over the 23 years in professional hockey to make our game a better game. ↗

— Bobby Hull

#better #expertise #gained #game #hockey

We need to talk. All of us About what we're going to do now." "I was going to watch Project Runway. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clary #humor #jace #humor

We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended. ↗

— Brit Hume

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Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions. ↗

— David Hume

#knees #melancholy #men #much #oftener

Men often act knowingly against their interest. ↗

— David Hume

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One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers. ↗

— James Humes

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