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The Patriot's Daughter

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“Adams drew back. He wanted Hannah, but he did not live for her. Making a name for himself was more important. He told her that he could not marry for years, until his practice was established. He knew that his honesty would doom the relationship, and Hannah in fact began to see others. Adams's ambition had triumphed over love.”

Revolutionary WarBiographical
Book:Setting the World Ablaze: Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and the American Revolution
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“March 1774 by declaring the port of Boston closed until the East India Company had been compensated for its losses. This was the first of the so-called Coercive Acts—a series of laws passed in 1774 in which the British attempted to assert their authority over the colonies but instead succeeded only in enraging the colonists further and ultimately prompted the outbreak of the Revolutionary War in 1775. It is tempting to wonder whether a government less influenced by the interests of the company might have simply shrugged off the tea parties or come to some compromise with the colonists.”

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“Your life is now a train moving swiftly down the tracks you are laying, but most of the time, you are moving too fast and barely putting down tracks in front of you. The reality that must be faced is that you will never arrive at your desired destination if you don’t set your long-term goals, plan your required outcomes, and define the station for your train to reach. I call this setting your lighthouse, the guiding light you need in your life to connect all the elements I’ve discussed and set long-term goals you can spend every day chasing after and moving the needle toward”

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Book:Suck Less, Do Better: The End of Excuses & the Rise of the Unstoppable You
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“They then said they would give me pork and lasses; and then inquired what execution some cannon had done, just before fired from the island, if they had not killed and wounded some of our men; and if we did not want help as our surgeons were a pack of ignormauses. I told them in reply, that they had done no other execution with their guns than wunding a dog,(which was the case,) and as they and their surgeons were of the same species of animals, I supposed the poor wunded dog would account it a particular favor to have some of his own kind ot assist him.”

Revolutionary War
Author:Joseph Plumb Martin
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