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The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.
Stephen Ambrose
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Stephen Ambrose
Age: 66 †
Born: 1936
Born: January 10
Died: 2002
Died: October 13
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Stephen Edward Ambrose
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At the core, the American citizen soldiers knew the difference between right and wrong, and they didn't want to live in a world in which wrong prevailed. So they fought, and won, and we all of us, living and yet to be born, must be forever profoundly grateful.
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I think that the opportunity to improve race relations in the United States has been put off temporarily.
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I think it's just that the private lives of our public leaders are so much more exposed today that if you're sensitive to protecting your family, it's much harder to not get defensive when somebody asks you those really rude questions about what your wife and your children are thinking and feeling at that exact moment.
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Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.
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Nothing is inevitable in life. People make choices, and those choices have results, and we all live with the results.
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I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.
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Washington's character was rock solid. He came to stand for the new nation and its republican virtues, which was why he became our first President by unanimous choice.
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Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.
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World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.
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I've always tried to be fair to my subjects. That's easy when they are as likable and admirable as Lewis and Clark, or Eisenhower.
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It is through history that we learn who we are and how we got that way, why and how we changed, why the good sometimes prevailed and sometimes did not.
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My first book was the book that changed my life.
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I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam.
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The Canadians have managed to live peacefully with their Indians. It is disgrace that the United States has not done the same.
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Nixon regarded himself as having been cheated by life. He never got my vote.
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