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The Year 1776, Celebrated As The Birth Year Of The Nation And For The Signing Of The Declaration Of Independence, Was For Those Who Carried The Fight For Independence Forward A Year Of All-too-few Victories, Of Sustained Suffering, Disease, Hunger, Desertion, Cowardice, Disillusionment, Defeat, Terrible Discouragement, And Fear, As They Would Never Forget, But Also Of Phenomenal Courage And Bedrock Devotion To Country, And That, Too They Would Never Forget.

Curiosity Is What Separates Us From The Cabbages. It's Accelerative. The More We Know, The More We Want To Know.

I Am Adamant That We Must Not Cut Back On Funding Of The Teaching Of The Arts In The Schools: Music, Painting, Theater, Dance, All Of It. The Great Thing About The Arts Is That The Only Way You Learn How To Do It Is By Doing It.

However Little Television You Watch, Watch Less.

There Are Innumerable Writing Problems In An Extended Work. One Book Took A Little More Than Six Years. You, The Writer, Change In Six Years. The Life Around You Changes. Your Family Changes. They Grow Up. They Move Away. The World Is Changing. You're Also Learning More About The Subject. By The Time You're Writing The Last Chapters Of The Book, You Know Much More Than You Did When You Started At The Beginning.