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"We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes."

"They were obviously headstones of graves, though the graves themselves no longer existed as either mounds or depressions; the years had leveled all. Scattered here and there, more massive blocks showed where some pompous or ambitious monument had once flung its feeble defiance at oblivion."

"There was something melancholic about that symbol of their nation's promise of freedom, a bell with a chipped mouth and cleft body."

"In a few days an officer came to our camp, under a flag of truce, and informed Hamilton, then a captain of artillery, but afterwards the aid of General Washington, that Captain Hale had been arrested within the British lines condemned as a spy, and executed that morning."

"This is no war of chieftains or of princes, of dynasties or national ambition; it is a war of peoples and of causes. There are vast numbers, not only in this Island but in every land, who will render faithful service in this war, but whose names will never be known, whose deeds will never be recorded. This is a War of the Unknown Warriors."
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"My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it."

"We are all vegetarians here, and except for a mountain lion that's been hanging around and killed our dog, we don't have a care in the world."

"It is all about marketing; that is where the real craft comes in. The best actors do not necessarily become the biggest stars. And vice versa."

"I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about."

"Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute is worth about $200!"

"Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth."
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