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Them Quotes by Stephen Ambrose
- As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way.
- I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.
- Eisenhower had the clearest blue eyes. He would fix them on you. In my every interview with him, he would lock his eyes on to…
- Lieutenant Welsh remembered walking around among the sleeping men, and thinking to himself that 'they had looked at and smelled death all around them all…
- There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader.
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- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
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