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I never planned my career. I never planned to be president of Harvard. People would have thought I was crazy, probably, at the age of 8 or 10 or 20, if I had said that. So what I would say to people planning their careers is to be ready to improvise. Be ready to follow up on opportunities as they unfold.
- Drew Gilpin Faust
#Age
#Crazy
#People
#Planning
#Ready
Probably half the cases of Civil War dead were not identified. And so there was no way to let loved ones know, and there were no regularized processes in either Northern or Southern Army for notifying next of kin.
- Drew Gilpin Faust
#Dead
#Know
#Loved
#War
#Way
I think that the firepower of the Civil War, the numbers of bodies that were left to rot, the numbers of amputations in the Civil War, all of this created threats to the understanding of the human being as an integral soul, as a body and soul that could be united.
- Drew Gilpin Faust
#Body
#Numbers
#Soul
#Understanding
#War
I've had dialogues with my dead mother over the 40 years since she died.
- Drew Gilpin Faust
#Dead
#Mother
#Over
#She
#Years
I lived in a world where social arrangements were taken for granted and assumed to be timeless. A child's obligation was to learn these usages, not to question them. The complexities of racial deportment were of a piece with learning manners and etiquette more generally.
- Drew Gilpin Faust
#Learning
#Manners
#More
#Question
#World
I've always done more than I ever thought I would. Becoming a professor - I never would have imagined that. Writing books - I never would have imagined that. Getting a Ph.D. - I'm not sure I would even have imagined that. I've lived my life a step at a time. Things sort of happened.
- Drew Gilpin Faust
#Life
#My Life
#Never
#Step
#Time
I often read nonfiction with a pencil in hand. I love the feel, the smell, the design, the weight of a book, but I also enjoy the convenience of my Kindle - for travel and for procuring a book in seconds.
- Drew Gilpin Faust
#Design
#Feel
#Love
#Pencil
#Travel
I have always loved animals, and as a child, I read a lot of horse books. I had a particular favorite called 'Silver Snaffles' that my mother gave away.
- Drew Gilpin Faust
#Always
#Animals
#Loved
#Mother
#Silver
Albert Camus's 'La Peste' - 'The Plague' - had an enormous impact on me when I read it in high school French class, and I chose my senior yearbook quote from it. In college, I wrote a philosophy class paper on Camus and Sartre, and again chose my yearbook quote from 'La Peste.'
- Drew Gilpin Faust
#High School
#Impact
#Me
#Plague
#School
The American Civil War produced carnage that has often been thought reserved for the combination of technological proficiency and inhumanity characteristic of a later time.
- Drew Gilpin Faust
#American
#Combination
#Often
#Time
#War
High school students ought to seek out campus communities where they feel not only empowered to engage their talents, but also challenged to leave their comfort zones. The ability to embrace new opportunities emerges, in part, from a willingness to take risks and to fail.
- Drew Gilpin Faust
#Ability
#Comfort
#New
#Risks
#School
I think the expectation of me was that I'd grow up, get married, have a family, probably not even have a job outside the home. I had bold notions sometime in my childhood that I wanted to be veterinarian... I wasn't sure I'd ever do it.
- Drew Gilpin Faust
#Childhood
#Family
#Grow
#Home
#Me
Mortality defines the human condition.
- Drew Gilpin Faust
#Human Condition
#Human
#Mortality
I always seem to be reading several books at once.
- Drew Gilpin Faust
#Always
#Books
#Once
#Reading
#Seem
The ability to recognize opportunities and move in new - and sometimes unexpected - directions will benefit you no matter your interests or aspirations. A liberal arts education is designed to equip students for just such flexibility and imagination.
- Drew Gilpin Faust
#Education
#Imagination
#New
#Unexpected
I'd say Harvard graduates leave here with a sense of the possible and the limit - and a sense that there are no limits to what humans can do and that you can always be pushing, whatever limit you think might be there.
- Drew Gilpin Faust
#Always
#Limits
#Possible
#Say
#Whatever
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