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That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.

~Doris Kearns Goodwin

Topics: About Convincing Following Ground Leadership Moment Opinion People Popular Simply Where Your Ahead

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The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.

~Doris Kearns Goodwin

Topics: Changing Filters His Own Past Prism Self-Image Simply Subject Through Which

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I shall always be grateful for this curious love of history, allowing me to spend a lifetime looking back into the past, allowing me to learn from these large figures about the struggle for meaning for life.

~Doris Kearns Goodwin

Topics: About Allowing Always Back Be Grateful Curious Figures Grateful History Large Learn Life Lifetime Looking Looking Back Love Me Meaning Past Shall Spend Struggle

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Journalism still, in a democracy, is the essential force to get the public educated and mobilized to take action on behalf of our ancient ideals.

~Doris Kearns Goodwin

Topics: Action Ancient Behalf Democracy Educated Essential Force Get Ideals Journalism Our Public Still Take

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There are but a handful of times in the history of our country when there occurs a transformation so remarkable that a molt seems to take place, and an altered country begins to emerge.

~Doris Kearns Goodwin

Topics: Altered Begins Country Emerge Handful History Occurs Our Place Remarkable Seems Take The History Of Times Transformation

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Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.

~Doris Kearns Goodwin

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As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.

~Doris Kearns Goodwin

Topics: Ability Around Historian Information Mass Shaped Story Take Tell Trust

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A lot of times when people are on campaigns, it can be like a movie set.

~Doris Kearns Goodwin

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I really believe that what happens one day affects the next, and I think that came from that experience of learning that if I told the score inning by inning, play by play, it built up to its natural climax.

~Doris Kearns Goodwin

Topics: Affects Believe Built Came Climax Day Experience Happens Learning Natural Next One Day Play Really Score Think Up I Think

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I now rely on a scanner, which reproduces the passages I want to cite, and then I keep my own comments on those books in a separate file so that I will never confuse the two again.

~Doris Kearns Goodwin

Topics: Again Books Cite Comments Confuse File Keep My Own Never Now Own Passages Rely Separate Then Those Two Want Which Will

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: January 4th, 1943

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