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There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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To be sure, no piece of social machinery, however well constructed, can be effective unless there is back of it a will and a determination to make it work. ↗

— Cordell Hull

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We emerged from the events of September 11 more steadfast in our beliefs, more courageous in our actions and more determined to protect our values than ever before. ↗

— Jane D. Hull

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The HoLee model was the first term structure model. I remember reading their paper soon after it was published and as it was fairly different from many of the other papers that I had read, I had to read it quite a few times. I realized that it was a really important paper. ↗

— John Hull

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The problem with interest rates are that you are not modeling a single number, you are modeling a whole term structure, so it is a sort of different type of problem. ↗

— John Hull

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There are challenges in terms of the measurement of VAR for what are known as nonlinear derivatives, where things like gamma and vega are important dimensions of the risk. ↗

— John Hull

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I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people. ↗

— John Hume

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No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

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And so in terms of territorial control, in terms of economic preeminence, the western share of the gross world product is declining as Asian societies in particular develop economically. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

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We also thought of ourselves in racial and largely ethnic terms. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

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