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| b8e2540 | That was my first lesson in real politics. . . . If you are cast on a desert island with only a screwdriver, a hatchet, and a chisel to make a boat with, why, go make the best one you can. It would be better if you had a saw, but you haven't. So with men. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| e923e83 | FORTY THOUSAND VISITORS descended upon Chicago in the middle of May 1860, drawn | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 83d02c8 | if slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong, | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 04c2a18 | There will be some one at the White House whom you will like more than me," Roosevelt had predicted during his final meeting with the press corps, "but not one who will interest you more." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| f3ac239 | In the reflected gaze of his (her husband's) steady admiration, she saw the face of the girl he had fallen in love with. | encouragement marriage | Doris Kearns Goodwin | |
| ed15493 | The failed deal crushed McClure, precipitating a nervous breakdown in April 1900 that propelled him to Europe to undergo the celebrated "rest-cure" devised by an American physician, S. Weir Mitchell. Prescribed for a range of nervous disorders, the rest cure required that patients remain isolated for weeks or even months at a time, forbidden to read or write, rigidly adhering to a milk-only diet. Underlying this regimen was the assumption t.. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 8a3dd17 | This extreme treatment was among the proliferating regimens developed in response to the stunning increase in nervous disorders diagnosed around the turn of the century. Commentators and clinicians cited a number of factors related to the stresses of modern civilization: the increased speed of communication facilitated by the telegraph and railroad; the "unmelodious" clamor of city life replacing the "rhythmical" sounds of nature; and the r.. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 239ba37 | There was no need to remind Roosevelt who controlled the senate. "I persistently refused to lose my temper," he recalled. "I merely explained good-humoredly that I had made up my mind." Though he steadfastly refused" -- | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 8e3f017 | In Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress," he began, "you may recall the description of the Man with the Muck-rake, the man who could look no way but downward." Bunyan's muckraker, he suggested, "typifies the man who in this life consistently refuses to see aught that is lofty, and fixes his eyes with solemn intentness only on that which is vile and debasing." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| d695349 | Don't hit till you have to; but, when you do hit, hit hard. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 0e4bc52 | elocution, | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 0b93b8d | it was not only the executive's right but his responsibility "to do whatever the needs of the people demand, unless the Constitution or the laws explicitly forbid him to do it." -- | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 13d2042 | all his life he had "endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 74b4fb9 | We have the right to demand that if we find men against whom there is not only suspicion, but almost a certainty that they have had collusion with men whose interests were in conflict with the interests of the public, they shall, at least, be required to bring positive facts with which to prove there has not been such collusion; and they ought themselves to have been the first to demand such an investigation." -Teddy Roosevelt" | teddy-roosevelt | Doris Kearns Goodwin | |
| 5f8c942 | Until we address unequal history, we cannot overcome unequal opportunity." Until blacks "stand on level and equal ground," we cannot rest. It must be our goal "to assure that all Americans play by the same rules and all Americans play against the same odds." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| c7c532b | Johnson insisted, "I don't want this symposium to come here and spend two days talking about what we have done, the progress has been much too small. We haven't done nearly enough. I'm kind of ashamed of myself that I had six years and couldn't do more than I did." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 9c588f4 | If "defeat is an orphan," the old saying goes, "victory has a thousand fathers," | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| d660fcc | Fanny was upset when Crittenden criticized Florence Nightingale, the celebrated British nurse of the Crimean War, saying, "he thought it a very unwomanly thing for a gentle lady to go into a hospital of wounded men." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| d285207 | If the continuing problems created by the Industrial Age were not addressed, he warned, the country would eventually be "sundered by those dreadful lines of division" that set "the haves" and the "have-nots" against one another." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 9b32beb | immediately allayed his fears, he gratefully recalled, by "the raillery" | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 2484ab7 | If Roosevelt were given another chance to lead the country, he intended to make the Republican Party once more the progressive party of Abraham Lincoln, to restore "the fellow feeling, mutual respect, the sense of common duties and common interests which arise when men take the trouble to understand one another, and to associate for a common object." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 9b84f94 | They were stealin' votes in east Texas," Johnson supporter and Austin mayor Tom Miller recalled, "we were stealin' votes in south Texas, only Jesus Christ could say who actually won it." But Jesus wasn't counting, and, by an eighty-seven-vote margin, "Landslide Lyndon" attained the Senate seat he had coveted for so long." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| cdea886 | Moreover, he objected, "I have never done an official act with a view to promote my own personal aggrandizement, and I don't like to begin now." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 130a39b | There it was again: the entrance up the darkened ramp disclosing an expanse of amazing green, the fervent crowd contained in a stadium scaled to human dimensions, the players so close it almost seemed that you could touch them, the eccentric features of an old ballpark constructed to fit the contours of the allotted space. I | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| bfdfa2f | What is the difference between power, title, and leadership? Is leadership possible without a purpose larger than personal ambition? | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 19da5e3 | Scholars who have studied the development of leaders have situated resilience, the ability to sustain ambition in the face of frustration, at the heart of potential leadership growth. More important than what happened to them was how they responded to these reversals, how they managed in various ways to put themselves back together, how these watershed experiences at first impeded, then deepened, and finally and decisively molded their lead.. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 3e0f716 | Chance had placed him in the catapult and now it was up to the vagaries of history to cut the catapult's rope. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 4bca558 | The former slave told his audience that "there is little necessity on this occasion to speak at length and critically of this great and good man, and of his high" | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| bd6a97c | In this first foray into politics, Lincoln also pledged that if his opinions on any subject turned out to be erroneous, he stood "ready to renounce them." With this commitment, Lincoln revealed early on a quality that would characterize his leadership for the rest of his life--a willingness to acknowledge errors and learn from his mistakes." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 5dee94d | no man is superior, unless it was by merit, and no man is inferior, unless by his demerit. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 54f272b | The media and pundits of the day instructed women that their only true fulfillment could be found as wives and mothers, that sexist discrimination was actually good for them, that the denial of opportunity was, in reality, the manifestation of the highest possible goals of womanhood. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| f27a882 | Mental health, contemporary psychiatrists tell us, consists of the ability to adapt to the inevitable stresses and misfortunes of life. It does not mean freedom from anxiety and depression, but only the ability to cope with these afflictions in a healthy way. "An outstanding feature of successful adaptation," writes George Vaillant, "is that it leaves the way open for future growth." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| a6c91ca | report that Tad was better eased Lincoln's mind, | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 76b8e6b | He spurred the Whig-dominated state legislature to pass a series of antislavery laws affirming the rights of black citizens against seizure by Southern agents, guaranteeing a trial by jury for any person so apprehended, and prohibiting New York police officers and jails from involvement in the apprehension | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 40352bb | Share your optimisms and keep your pessimisms to yourself. | Sherwin B. Nuland | ||
| ef15c90 | The more knowledge we have about the realities of lethal illness, the more sensible we can be about choosing the time to stop or the time to fight on, and the less we expect the kind of death most of us will not have. For those who die and those who love them, a realistic expectation is the surest path to tranquillity. | Sherwin B. Nuland | ||
| 8e89ac6 | When we mourn, it should be the loss of love that makes us grieve, not the guilt that we did something wrong. | Sherwin B. Nuland | ||
| b1fdc51 | knowledge without wisdom is a clear and present danger | Sherwin B. Nuland | ||
| 0829205 | The kind of child our society resembles just now is one whose intelligence far exceeds his maturity. Every teacher and every parent knows what a formula for disaster that can be. | Sherwin B. Nuland | ||
| e4554cd | Though their doctors dutifully record such distinct entities as stroke, or cardiac failure, or pneumonia, these aged folk have in fact died because something in them has worn out. Long before the days of scientific medicine, everyone understood this. On July 5, 1814, when he was seventy-one years old, Thomas Jefferson wrote to the seventy-eight-year-old John Adams, "But our machines have now been running seventy or eighty years, and we must.. | Sherwin B. Nuland | ||
| a7a9fc7 | When my time comes, I will seek hope in the knowledge that insofar as possible I will not be allowed to suffer or be subjected to needless attempts to maintain life; I will seek it in the certainty that I will not be abandoned to die alone; I am seeking it now, in the way I try to live my life, so that those who value what I am will have profited by my time on earth and be left with comforting recollections of what we have meant to one anot.. | Sherwin B. Nuland | ||
| 30f3358 | Mine is not the first voice to suggest that as patients, as families, and even as doctors, we need to find hope in other ways, more realistic ways, than in the pursuit of elusive and danger-filled cures. In the care of advanced disease, whether cancer or some other determined killer, hope should be redefined. Some of my sickest patients have taught me of the varieties of hope that can come when death is certain. I wish I could report that t.. | Sherwin B. Nuland | ||
| e6c63aa | Every triumph over some major pathology, no matter how ringing the victory, is only a reprieve from the inevitable end. | Sherwin B. Nuland | ||
| 00dbd6b | Before you conclude that your options are limited, you need evidence that you cannot do something, rather than just deciding that you cannot do it. | Sherwin B. Nuland |