"Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history."

-- Doris Kearns Goodwin

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“I came to the conclusion that people were just peculiar, I withdrew from them, and never thought about them until I was forced to.”
“Not knowing you can't do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it.”
“I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.”
“You cannot ask everyone to behave ethically.”
“When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.”
“When I do my vocal warm-ups everyone calls me the dolphin because I do stupid siren noises.”
“It's silly that anyone in this world tells you that there are only certain people that can marry you.”
“But what is work and what is not work? Is it work to dig, to carpenter, to plant trees, to fell trees, to ride, to fish, to hunt, to feed chickens, to play the piano, to take photographs, to build a house, to cook, to sew, to trim hats, to mend motor bicycles? All of these things are work to somebody, and all of them are play to somebody. There are in fact very few activities which cannot be classed either as work or play according as you choose to regard them.”

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