Stephen Ambrose Quotes

Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.

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• As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass or does it come in like honey?

  

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• The compulsively readable events of my life occurred mainly in infancy, and it's been pretty humdrum ever since.

  

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• It's so nice that there's all this new space for new, good content. It's good news for us actors, since nobody makes real independent films anymore.

  

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• I was always fascinated by politics, and I was exposed to it quite a lot.

  

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• At exactly which point do you start to realize, that life without knowledge is death in disguise?

  

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• How we treat our fellow creatures is only one more way in which each one of us, every day, writes our own epitaph-bearing into the world a message of light and life or just more darkness and death, adding to the world's joy or to its despair.

  

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• Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.

  

  Stephen Ambrose
  • Death
  • Slave