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"This corn will teach to you, should you peel away the husk, and be willing to open your ears."
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"To teach, learn. To learn, teach."
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Personal Development
"We learn better when learning is a game."
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"Experience is the only subject worthwhile of study."
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"The best way to learn is through direct experience."
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"It was a lesson that I would learn in time though it wasn't Hegbert who taught me."
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"Through self-development, you can continuously fortify yourself for the next level of increase."
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"I learn to trust someone I love..I learn to deal with heartbreak..I learn to forgive him who hurts.I never stop learning in this life."
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"The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows."
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"This philosophy teaches us to leave safe harbor for the rough seas of real-world experience, and to accept that a rough copy out in the world serves us far greater than a masterpiece sitting quietly on our shelves."
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"I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber."
Work
"My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear and interesting and compelling to me, then I hope maybe it will be for the reader."
Hope
"I had been writing for about twelve years. I knew pretty well how you could find things out, but I had never been trained in an academic way how to go about the research."
Pretty
"No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read."
History
"I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down."
Life
"People are so helpful. People will stop what they're doing to show you something, to walk with you through a section of the town, or explain how a suspension bridge really works."
People
"My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the army and the war. It's the nadir, the low point of the United States of America."
War
"I can fairly be called an amateur because I do what I do, in the original sense of the word - for love, because I love it. On the other hand, I think that those of us who make our living writing history can also be called true professionals."
History
"To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college English courses - to read them now is to have one of the infinite pleasures in life."
Life
"In time I began to understand that it's when you start writing that you really find out what you don't know and need to know."
Time
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