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I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I bel

I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term. – Robert Caro

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I really wanted there to be something in my life that I enjoy just for the beauty of it. – Robert Caro

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I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives. – Robert Caro

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The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations. – Robert Caro

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Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried. – Henry Louis Gates

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Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life. – Jacques Chirac

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The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing. – David Attenborough

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Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world. – James K. Polk

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Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense? – Louis Aragon

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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works. – Saint Augustine

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Im asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldnt say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I dont know myself at all yet. – Kristen Stewart

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I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness. – William Weld

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