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  • Then unspeakable frustration regarding terraforming in Howards End. All I want are tunnels.

    If we can't make you open, we will take it out in blood. greygirlbeast 2008

  • The poignant conclusion to the film, the inheritance of the house called Howards End by the son of the middle class and aristocracy from the wealthy capitalist, is meant to be a sort of healing, but from the perspective of the unseen lower classes it is merely the latest of the endless history of birth determining status and wealth.

    Pajiba 2010

  • We've never been more in need of an army of fed up "Howards" giving vent, fighting back for their rights, and demanding their representatives in Congress pay attention and act responsibly, or step aside for others who will.

    Democrat Agenda Omissions 2007

  • We've never been more in need of an army of fed up "Howards" giving vent, fighting back for their rights, and demanding their representatives in Congress pay attention and act responsibly, or step aside for others who will.

    Democrat Agenda Omissions 2007

  • The first of the Howards was a swineherd, I dare say, but generations of education, of association with the best, have turned them from swineherds into gentlemen, and it takes generations to do it. "

    The Hill A Romance of Friendship Horace Annesley Vachell 1908

  • The first of the Howards was a swineherd, I dare say, but generations of education, of association with the best, have turned them from swine-herds into gentlemen, and it takes generations to do it. "

    The Hill A Romance of Friendship Horace Annesley Vachell 1908

  • These executives let's call them Future Howards remain unconvinced that the world and the global economy are undergoing a structural change.

    Dov Seidman: Which CEOs Get 'Should?' Dov Seidman 2011

  • Forster's novel "Howards End," she stumbled upon scores of her own books that she hadn't yet read.

    The Life Well-Read Eric Ormsby 2011

  • Yet "Howards End Is on the Landing" Profile Books, 236 pages, $15.95 is an autobiography of sorts too.

    The Life Well-Read Eric Ormsby 2011

  • Future Howards also tend to point to one of the following reasons to explain why they are not taking the same journey as Howard:

    Dov Seidman: Which CEOs Get 'Should?' Dov Seidman 2011

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