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"Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge."
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"The history of man is a must read poetry."
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"You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft."
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"A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'"
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"The strike of the miners in Arizona was one of the most remarkable strikes in the history of the American labor movement. Its peaceful character, its successful outcome, were due to that most remarkable character, Governor Hunt."
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"Tony Kaye is great with that kind of stuff. Up until American History X, he had only done commercials."
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"I loved psychology and I loved history."
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"History is the short trudge from Adam to atom."
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"I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling."
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"At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history."
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"When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas."
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"I seem to have no problem revealing my crush on the man who murdered Lincoln."
Man
"While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
Happiness
"Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge."
History
"I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good."
People
"Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound like we should be on the radio. We don't sound professional; we sound like people you would know."
Success
"Not that I want the current president killed. I will, for the record and for the FBI agent assigned to read this and make sure I mean no harm, clearly state that while I am obsessed with death, I am against it."
Death
"History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting."
History
"I hated the lost colony; in second grade, we were doing American History, and they said, We don't know what happened to them. That drove me nuts. That lost colony drove me crazy."
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"I loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew talked about movies that way, but Siskel and Ebert took each movie as it came and talked about whether it was a success on its own terms."
Movies
"I discovered that Robert Todd Lincoln was there for each of the first three assassinations. I wanted to write about the Lincoln Memorial, so when I found out he had attended its dedication, that helped focus it further."
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