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• Being a professional means doing your job on the days you don't want to do it
• Bart Giamatti did not grow up (as he had dreamed) to play second base for the Red Sox. He became a professor…
• Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.
• These days there's all too much coverage of pesudo-events about extraordinarily inauthentic people doing inauthentic things.
• There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the…
• With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television…
• If there is anything that is important to America, it is that you are not a prisoner of the past.
• QUESTION: Do you know what the greatest test is? ANSWER:Do you still get excited about what you do when you get up…
• Fear was the terrible secret of the battlefield and could afflict the brave as well as the timid. Worse it was contagious,…
• Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.
• What looked safe was not safe. What looked hard and unsafe was probably safer. Anyway, safe was somewhere else in the world.
• The byline is a replacement for many other things, not the least of them money. If someone ever does a great psychological…

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