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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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Every president has to live with the result of what Lyndon Johnson did with Vietnam, when he lost the trust of the American people in the presidency. – 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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There used to be this feeling under Eisenhower and Kennedy and Roosevelt and Truman that government was a solution. Trust in the presidency fell precipitously under Johnson – real lows. And its never come back. Its a trend that, if youre liberal, is really discouraging. – Robert Caro

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The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history. – George Eliot

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History does not unfold: it piles up. – Robert M. Adams, Bad Mouth

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Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution. – Anwar Sadat

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History

The subject matter is very tricky. Its about the Munich massacre and what Mossad did afterwards with the assassination squads. I think its a turning point in history, especially for the Palestinians. – Daniel Craig

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Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isnt alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere. – Flora Lewis

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If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment. – Frances Wright

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And as the Divine that goes forth from the Lord is the good of love and the truth of faith, the angels are angels and are heaven in the measure in which they receive good and truth from the Lord. – Emanuel Swedenborg

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People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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