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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson.

~Bruce Catton

Topics: Along Deal Demand Entitled Get Going Good Good Deal Hard Important Learn Lesson May More Realize Than Us Without World

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Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up our eyes beyond the glow in the sunset skies.

~Bruce Catton

Topics: American Any Beyond End Express Eyes Glow Greater Heritage Homely In The End Itself Lift Our Skies Sunset Than Truths Up Us Very

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And there is the headlight, shining far down the track, glinting off the steel rails that, like all parallel lines, will meet in infinity, which is after all where this train is going.

~Bruce Catton

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I think I was always subconsciously driven by an attempt to restate that faith and to show where it was properly grounded, how it grew out of what a great many young men on both sides felt and believed and were brave enough to do.

~Bruce Catton

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Say this for big league baseball - it is beyond any question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.

~Bruce Catton

Topics: America Any Baseball Beyond Big Conversation Ever Greatest Invented League Piece Question Say

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Early youth is a baffling time.

~Bruce Catton

Topics: Early Time Youth

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In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train.

~Bruce Catton

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Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made.

~Bruce Catton

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The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited; the junction may be interesting but some day you will have to leave it and you do not know where the limited will take you.

~Bruce Catton

Topics: Day Does Interesting Know Last Leave Like Limited Living May Moment Morning Nice Present Present Moment Some Take Town Waiting Where Will You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: October 9th, 1899

Died: August 28th, 1978

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