I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.

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• Walter Lord:

  Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - n

• Walter Lord:

  It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor s

• Walter Lord:

  There were exceptions, a couple of families that just plain didn't want to even think about it, alt

• Walter Lord:

  It's a funny thing, but today the Titanic is probably much more - that is people are much more awar

• Walter Map:

  If die I must, let me die drinking in an Inn.

• Walter Map:

  The Cistercians do not eat meat... Yet they keep pigs to the number of many thousands, and sell the

• Walter Lippmann:

  The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to

• Walter Lippmann:

  The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grac

• Walter Lippmann:

  Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.

• Walter Lippmann:

  It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.