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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.


Nathaniel Branden

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NATHANIEL RATELIFF Unfortunately, we have a tendency to see figures from the past as caricatures - either all good or a...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK There was a listlessness in his gait, as if he saw no reason for taking one step further, nor felt a...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it le...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random ...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Washington worked very hard to create his legacy. Even before the War of Independence was over, he w...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling ...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE It is impossible to say when 37-year-old Benedict Arnold first met 18-year-old Peggy Shippen, but we...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an Eng...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one tha...
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