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"Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen."
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"Neither Johnson nor his party nor the government as a whole were willing to raise, train, equip, and then send Vietnam sufficient manpower to do the job."
"The Canadians have managed to live peacefully with their Indians. It is disgrace that the United States has not done the same."
"My favorite book is the last one printed, which is always better than those that were published earlier."
"Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men."
"Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed by Mexico?"
"Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress."
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"Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig."
"There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."
"As a reader you recognise that feeling when you're lost in a book? You know the one - when whatever's going on around you seems less real than what you're reading and all you want to do is keep going deeper into the story whether it's about being halfway up a mountain in Brazil in 1823 of in love with a man you aren't sure you can trust or fighting a war in the last human outpost, somewhere beyond the moon. Well, if you're writing that book it's real for you too."
"Reading books exposes us to the consistency and uniqueness of being human. Book reading is an investigatory process. We read books in order to encounter the orchestrated words that describe emotions and observations that we too have experienced but are unable to glean the right alignment of words that fully embody the resonance that we seek."
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