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There is only one person who can measure your success. That person is you.
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Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.
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Washington had performed his role to perfection. It was no enough that a leader look the part; by Washington's rules, he must…
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In fact, it was the largest expeditionary force of the 18th century. The largest, most powerful force ever set forth from Britain…
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The first of all qualities of a general is courage.
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Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.
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The preparations were elaborate and mammoth in scale, and Washington threw himself into the effort, demanding that not an hour be lost.
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They must be cool but determined...he threatened instant death to any man who showed cowardice.
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To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
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...Had proven himself a leader of remarkable ability, a man not only of enterprising ideas, but with the staying power to carry…
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We must not think of learning as only what happens in schools. It is an extended part of life. The most readily…
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Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.
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Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I can fairly be called an amateur because I do what I do, in the original sense of the word - for…
— David McCullough
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From this time everything was copulated. Acetic, formic, butyric, margaric, &c., acids, alkaloids, ethers, amides, anilides, all became copulated bodies. So that…
— Auguste Laurent
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History is the art of making an argument about the past by telling a story accountable to evidence. In the writing of…
— Jill Lepore
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I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.
— Kanye West
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It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
— Woodrow Wilson
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Half of writing history is hiding the truth.
— Joss Whedon
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
— Gustave Flaubert
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Oh, Val," said Father. "All you have to do is live your life, and everyone around you will be happier." "No greatness,…
— Orson Scott Card
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