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01Undated

One of George H. W. Bush's early teachers at Andover wrote, "At the moment he is intellectually immature for his powers of reasoning are not entirely developed.

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02Undated

It is more important to me that my students come out of my class believing 'This story is interesting and I might want to know more about it', than to fill them up with information. If I can remind them or convince them that history is interesting then I feel I have succeeded, because unlike chemistry or physics, history is a subject that anyone can teach themselves, if they are interested."[

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03Undated

He (the immigrant father) would walk by proxy in the Elysian fields of liberal learning.

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04Undated

He was a generous but subtly demanding boss.

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05Undated

He was trying to find his footing in a world both familiar and foreign

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06Undated

The politics of the possible was being replaced by the politics of purity.

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07Undated

His was a quiet but persistent charisma.

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08Undated

He understood the code of his social class enough to affect an air of indifference about life.

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09Undated

I can see that spark coming back when he talks about the future.

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10Undated

He made his character his platform.

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11Undated

Such was the code: Strive for victory, but never seem to be self-involved.

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12Undated

The nature of revolutions is to sweep the reluctant along.

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13Undated

Time after time during the next six months, he would put me together again.

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14Undated

Reagan to son: how really great is the challenge of proving your masculinity and charm with one woman for the rest of your life. Any man can find a twerp here and there who will go along with cheating, and it doesn’t take all that much manhood. It does take quite a man to remain attractive and to be loved by a woman who has heard him snore, seen him unshaven, tended him while he was sick and washed his dirty underwear. Do that and keep her still feeling a warm glow and you will know some very beautiful music.

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15Undated

A live-in domestic worker: "You are never sure that your soul is your own except when you are out of the house.

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16Undated

A young mark twain on the make: "I can't turn in inkstand into Aladdin's lamp.

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17Undated

Abilene possessed greater vision, perhaps because it possessed little else.

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18Undated

He was like a man thinking on an abstract subject all the time.

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19Undated

Accustomed to motion, he was forced to be still.

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20Undated

His charm was not electric, but it was enveloping.

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21Undated

He was a product of a culture where it was generally counterproductive to hold grudges.

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22Undated

He had always had a gift for conjuring images in his mind's eye. It was one of the secrets of his military success.

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23Undated

This senate was a place where good Representatives went when they died. Thomas Reed

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24Undated

The horizons of man are incomparably narrower than that of the land on which he toils. Editor of the Nebraska journal

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