#rove

My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove it either. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#civilisation #colony #disprove #dumping #either

Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#concern #improvement #more #motives #purity

Since its founding in 1854, Penn State has proven to be a leading institution of higher learning. ↗

— Tim Holden

#higher #institution #leading #learning #penn

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#fools #know #men #wise #wise men

Although awareness of cancer's prevalence in the United States improves and medical advances in the field abound, pancreatic cancer has largely been absent from the list of major success stories. ↗

— Chris Van Hollen

#absent #advances #although #awareness #been

There was a time when a man was so convinced that the world was round that he was determined to prove it. ↗

— Ernest Holmes

#determined #man #prove #round #time

Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther. ↗

— Thomas Hood

#copper #farther #get #going #improve

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it. ↗

— Bob Hope

#bank #lend #need #place #prove

I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

#got #i #i can #myself #need

My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#art #caused #direction #disappointment #drove