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- One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism. — Stephen Ambrose
- Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life. — Stephen Ambrose
- The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future. — Stephen Ambrose