"To learn to get along without, to realize……" — Bruce Catton
"To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson."
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Bruce Catton
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21 Quotes by Bruce Catton
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And there is the headlight, shining far down the track, glinting off the steel rails that, like all parallel lines,…
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Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the…
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A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can cause almost as much suffering as the most acute malevolence.
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The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town…
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In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip…
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Early youth is a baffling time
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Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the…
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I think I was always subconsciously driven by an attempt to restate that faith and to show where it was…
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Even the most painstaking history is a bridge across an eternal mystery.
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A singular fact about modern war is that it takes charge. Once begun it has to be carried to its…
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There is a rowdy strain in American life, living close to the surface but running very deep. Like an ape…
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Beneath everything else, North and West, there ran a profound, unvoiced, almost subconscious conviction that the [American] nation was going…
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