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Joseph J. Ellis has 13 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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To my three sons, Peter, Scott, and Alexander who pulled me from the 18th Century and back into the present on a…
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Some models of self-control are able to achieve their serenity easily because the soul fires never burn brightly to begin with.
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Washington's task was to transform the improbable into the inevitable.
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Even in the best of lives, mistakes are made.
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I believe I am an honorable man.
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And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval,…
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I would say readers can trust my work more than anyone else's.
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I deeply regret having let stand and later confirming the assumption that I went to Vietnam. For this and any other distortions…
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[quoting someone else] the American constitution is a document designed by geniuses to be eventually interpreted by idiots
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Lincoln once said that America was founded on a proposition that was written by Jefferson in 1776. We are really founded on…
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Because he could not afford to fail, he could not afford to trust.
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Chronology, so the saying goes, is the last refuge of the feeble-minded and the only resort for historians.
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I try to work on shows that I would want to watch.
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Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
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Most people would rather give than get affection.
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Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there…
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Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer.
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When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be…
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