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Taft was Roosevelt's handpicked successor. I didn't know how deep the friendship was between the two men until I read their almost four hundred letters, stretching back the to early '30s. It made me realize the heartbreak when they ruptured was much more than a political division. Doris Kearns Goodwin

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There are but a handful of times in the history of our country when there occurs a transformation so remarkable that a molt seems to take place, and an altered country begins to emerge. Doris Kearns Goodwin

History Country Transformation Our Emerge Seems Remarkable Take Altered Occurs Handful Times Begins The History Of Place

Journalists were at the forefront. From the Civil War until the early 1900s, nothing was being done to solve the problems of the Industrial Age. Doris Kearns Goodwin

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'The bully pulpit' is somewhat diminished in our age of fragmented attention and fragmented media. Doris Kearns Goodwin

Age Pulpit Fragmented Our Diminished Somewhat Attention Bully Media

FDR once said he was like a cat, that he would pounce and then relax. That's much harder to do in the 24-hour cable world, because it's almost like the press demands of you to be saying something or doing something every day. Doris Kearns Goodwin

I would say that the study of history is that which gives man the greatest optimism, for if man were not destined by his Maker to go on until the Kingdom of Heaven is attained, man would have been extinguished long ago by reason of all man's mistakes and frailties. Douglas Southall Freeman

'Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Douglas Southall Freeman

Too Late World Too Late Seek Tis

I always seem to be reading several books at once. Drew Gilpin Faust

Reading Books Once Several Seem Always

I've always done more than I ever thought I would. Becoming a professor - I never would have imagined that. Writing books - I never would have imagined that. Getting a Ph.D. - I'm not sure I would even have imagined that. I've lived my life a step at a time. Things sort of happened. Drew Gilpin Faust

Life Time Writing Thought My Life Books Would More Never Step Sort Sure Always Becoming Than Done Getting Happened Even Lived Ever Professor Things Imagined

I lived in a world where social arrangements were taken for granted and assumed to be timeless. A child's obligation was to learn these usages, not to question them. The complexities of racial deportment were of a piece with learning manners and etiquette more generally. Drew Gilpin Faust

Learning Obligation World Manners Assumed Complexities More Generally Taken Taken For Granted Piece Learn Arrangements Were Question Timeless Child Where Social Them Racial Etiquette Granted Lived

Probably half the cases of Civil War dead were not identified. And so there was no way to let loved ones know, and there were no regularized processes in either Northern or Southern Army for notifying next of kin. Drew Gilpin Faust

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Americans in the Civil War period were very interested in Heaven and what it might be like, because they were having to face the fact that many of their loved ones were gone and many of their loved ones, they hoped, were in this other realm called Heaven. Drew Gilpin Faust

The American Civil War produced carnage that has often been thought reserved for the combination of technological proficiency and inhumanity characteristic of a later time. Drew Gilpin Faust

War Time Thought Carnage Later Characteristic Civil Civil War Combination Been American Often Produced Inhumanity Reserved Proficiency Technological

I think the expectation of me was that I'd grow up, get married, have a family, probably not even have a job outside the home. I had bold notions sometime in my childhood that I wanted to be veterinarian... I wasn't sure I'd ever do it. Drew Gilpin Faust

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As a scholar, you don't want to repeat yourself, ever. You're supposed to say it once, publish it, and then it's published, and you don't say it again. If someone comes and gives a scholarly paper about something they've already published, that's just terrible. As a university president, you have to say the same thing over and over and over. Drew Gilpin Faust

You Yourself Same Thing Publish President Once Paper Say About Someone Something Gives Scholar Scholarly Over Supposed Terrible Repeat Same Just Want Again Then Ever Published Thing University

When I address admitted students each spring, I ask them to consider two questions: Why would Harvard be the right place for the person I am? Why would it be the right place for the person that I want to become? These questions, in my mind, get at the heart of any admissions process. Drew Gilpin Faust

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As we have sought through the centuries to define ourselves as human beings and as nations through the prisms of history and literature, no small part of that effort has drawn us to the subject of war. We might even say that the humanities began with war and from war, and have remained entwined with it ever since. Drew Gilpin Faust

War History Humanities Define Say Drawn Ourselves Small Remained Through Small Part Entwined Part Since Sought Subject Began Effort Human Nations Human Beings Literature Centuries Might Us Beings Even Ever

The seductiveness of war derives in part from its location on this boundary of the human, the inhuman, and the superhuman. It requires us to confront the relationship among the noble, the horrible, and the infinite; the animal, the spiritual, and the divine. Drew Gilpin Faust

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I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig. E. P. Thompson

You Peace Garden Become Prisoner Own Dig Back Say Termination Coming Going Movement Then Your Peace Movement

I am convinced that we are in a terminal process. E. P. Thompson

Terminal Am Process Convinced

There are no European voices at Geneva, there are no European voices at START. E. P. Thompson

Voices Geneva European Start

The missiles come first, and the justifications come second. E. P. Thompson

First Missiles Come Second

Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great. Edgar Quinet

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