Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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When I look at what a writer owes to the reader, it's critical to know that everything you're writing about is not made up in your head. I feel that unless you can document and be certain about what it is that you're writing about, the reader is going to lose faith in your own integrity.

Doris Kearns Goodwin's Popular Quotes

What the American Dream means to me is the fact that - what founded this country - when I think about those posters that were put up in Europe, which…

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I shall always be grateful for this curious love of history, allowing me to spend a lifetime looking back into the past, allowing me to learn from th…

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Washington was a typical American. Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was bigger than his cou…

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I think confidence comes from doing something well, working at it hard, and you build it up. It's not something you're born with. You have to build t…

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What I learned, more than anything, was that you can't have it all balanced perfectly at any one time. When I was young, it was much more balanced to…

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As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.

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If you interview five people about the same incident, and you see five different points of view, it makes you know what makes history so complicated.…

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I think some people who go into public life, if they go in needing the applause of thousands, they're never going to work out successfully in the end…

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If your ambition comes at the price of an unbalanced life, that there's nothing else that gives you comfort but success, it's not worth it.

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