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Shelby Foote has 34 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The Civil War defined us as what we are and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things...…
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North was only a direction indicated by a compass--if a man had one, that is, for otherwise there was no north or…
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Generally the first week in September brings the hottest weather of the year, and this was no exception. Overhead the fans turned…
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Grant was something rare in that or any war. He could learn from experience.
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I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making…
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People make a grievous error thinking that a list of facts is the truth. Facts are just the bare bones out of…
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I've never known, at least a modern historical instance, where the truth wasn't superior to distortion in every way.
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People want to know why the South is so interested in the Civil War. I had maybe, it's a rough guess, about…
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And I really do think that the difficulty of research makes it more real to you than punching a thing to find…
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But the same thing was true in the army. You slept in a barracks with all kinds of people of every nationality,…
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I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite…
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Getting close to books, and spending time by myself, I was obliged to think about things I would never have thought about…
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Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to…
— Sarah Bernhardt
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If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he…
— Charles Horton Cooley
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What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on…
— George Bernard Shaw
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To follow Christ is to become more like Him. It is to learn from His character. As spirit children of our Heavenly…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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I called my cat William because no shorter name fits the dignity of his character. Poor old man, he has fits now,…
— Josh Billings
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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Christianity is not a political theory. It is not even a cultural theory. It is, at its root, all about changing the…
— Ravi Zacharias
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The history of mankind is his character.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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On his character Dean in Blue Valentine: It's sad, because he just doesn't have any ambition outside of loving his wife and…
— Ryan Gosling
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In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate-look to his…
— Noah Webster
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A horse gallops with his lungs, perseveres with his heart, and wins with his character.
— Federico Tesio
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Rupert Grint is exactly like his character Ron, in that they are both incredibly funny, friendly, and loyal.
— Matthew Lewis
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