There are 20,000 million books I could have to read, but I can pick the ones and know … - Doris Kearns Goodwin

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If nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another world.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

There are 20,000 million books I could have to read, but I can pick the ones and know that I'm learning something that I didn't know before. That's the glory of writing. It's not even so much the writing, it's what you learn - especially history - because so much of it is research.

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They all start competing against Lincoln as the greatest president. And the [library] building becomes the symbol, the memorial to that dream.

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He (William Howard Taft) had little patience with the unconscious arrogance of conscious wealth and financial success.

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I liked the thought that the book I was now holding had been held by dozens of others.

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I think with Lyndon Johnson, the most important thing I learned was that he never had the sense of security that comes from inside. It always depended on other people making him feel good about himself, which meant that he was always beholden, continually needing to succeed. He could never stop. There was such a restlessness in him.

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Those who knew Lincoln described him as an extraordinarily funny man. Humor was an essential aspect of his temperament. He laughed, he explained, so he did not weep.

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