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Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.
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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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The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.
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When Hitler declared war on the United States, he was betting that German soldiers, raised up in the Hitler Youth, would always out fight American soldiers, brought up in the Boy Scouts. He lost that bet. The Boy Scouts had been taught how to figure their way out of their own problems.
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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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World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.
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