"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 these large figures about the struggle for meaning for life."

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Source : "Doris Kearns Goodwin: Living With the Presidents". Interview with Susan Sarfati, www.pcmaconvene.org. January 1, 2014.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#Struggle Quotes #Grateful Quotes #Past Quotes

“One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.”
“A people must have dignity and identity.”
“I wasn't straining at the bit to become a movie star any more than I had plotted to get out of vaudeville and into Broadway musicals”
“The heart of salvation is the Cross of Christ. The reason salvation is so easy to obtain is that it cost God so much. The Cross was the place where God and sinful man merged with a tremendous collision and where the way to life was opened. But all the cost and pain of the collision was absorbed by the heart of God.”
“While I still have more good days than bad days, I'm going to keep playing.”
“I got a fur shawl once. I was so disgusted! And I couldn't re-gift it. I don't know anyone who'd want fur.”
“Plenty of mathematicians, Hardy knew, could follow a step-by-step discursus unflaggingly-yet counted for nothing beside Ramanujan. Years later, he would contrive an informal scale of natural mathematical ability on which he assigned himself a 25 and Littlewood a 30. To David Hilbert, the most eminent mathematician of the day, he assigned an 80. To Ramanujan he gave 100.”
“You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.”

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