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The Truth Isn't Just The Facts. You Can Have All The Facts Imaginable And Miss The Truth, Just As You Can Have Facts Missing Or Some Wrong, And Reach The Larger Truth.

The First Of All Qualities Of A General Is Courage.

I Feel That As Much As I Enjoy Loafing, There Is Something Higher For Which To Live.

The Year 1776, Celebrated As The Birth Year Of The Nation And For The Signing Of The Declaration Of Independence, Was For Those Who Carried The Fight For Independence Forward A Year Of All-too-few Victories, Of Sustained Suffering, Disease, Hunger, Desertion, Cowardice, Disillusionment, Defeat, Terrible Discouragement, And Fear, As They Would Never Forget, But Also Of Phenomenal Courage And Bedrock Devotion To Country, And That, Too They Would Never Forget.

I Think The Public Library System Is One Of The Most Amazing American Institutions. Free For Everybody. If You Ever Get The Blues About The Status Of American Culture There Are Still More Public Libraries Than There Are Mcdonald's. During The Worst Of The Depression Not One Public Library Closed Their Doors.