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There was a problem with these stories, however, which I later discovered, which is that half of them weren't true.
The lawyers and the judges would travel from one county courthouse to the other, and when anyone was knowing Lincoln was in town, they would come from miles around to listen to him tell stories.
And all these stories became part of his memory bank, so he could call on them whenever he needed to.
One of his favorite stories, for example, had to do with the Revolutionary War hero, Ethan Allen.
When I open my eyes and I see my sons in the place where my father once sat, I feel an invisible loyalty and love linking my sons to the grandfather whose face they never had a chance to see, but whose heart and soul they have come to know through all the stories I have told.
Allowing me to believe that the private people we have loved and lost in our families, and the public figures we have respected in our history, just as Abraham Lincoln wanted to believe, really can live on, so long as we pledge to tell and to retell the stories of their lives.
Or it might be shop-dropping instead of shop-lifting, where we'll make little mini-scrolls with lovely stories on about what's the story behind your clothes.
ST: So my in-box is flooded about cancer apps, with heartbreaking stories of people.
These stories have to be told, along with the countless others that have been buried by time.
The stories around food are scary and somewhat overwhelming, and I told myself it's time to bring a mindful patience into the impatience.
Those are just a few of the horrific stories that I heard from women over the last year, as I've been investigating workplace sexual harassment.
Thousands of women started reaching out to me to share their own stories of pain and agony and shame.
But ironically, one of the first stories I covered was the Anita Hill hearings in Washington, DC.
Closer to home, we have thousands of stories like this, and smart stories, stories that have a great outcome.
Stories like ours are, unfortunately, far too common.
Queens is one of the most diverse places in the world, with immigrant parents holding stories that always start with something between three and 15 dollars in a pocket, a voyage across a vast sea and a cash-only hustle sheltering families in jam-packed, busted apartments.
I want to tell you a story about stories.
And I want to tell you this story because I think we need to remember that sometimes the stories we tell each other are more than just tales or entertainment or narratives.
The story I'm about to tell you is about how one of the most advanced technological achievements of the modern era has its roots in stories, and how some of the most important transformations yet to come might also.
And just as importantly, they began to write stories about how that might happen and what those voyages might be like.
Other stories would soon follow, most notably by Cyrano de Bergerac, with his "Lunar Tales."
People still told stories about getting to the Moon, but they relied on the old ideas or, once again, on dreams or on magic.
In his stories, he would describe in fantastical technical detail machines and contraptions, and nowhere was he more influential in this than in his short story, "The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall."
Is it just because I think it's cool, or because I'm just weirdly fascinated by stories of 17th- and 19th-century science fiction?
But I also think that these stories remind us of the cultural processes driving spaceflight and even technological innovation more broadly.
And when you look before the investments of billionaire tech entrepreneurs and before the Cold War Space Race, and even before the military investments in liquid fuel rocketry, the economic origins of spaceflight are found in stories and in ideas.
It was in these stories that the first concepts for spaceflight were articulated.
And it was through these stories that the narrative of a future for humanity in space began to propagate from mind to mind, eventually creating an intergenerational intellectual community that would iterate on the ideas for spacecraft until such a time as they could finally be built.
I also wanted to tell you about Godwin, Poe and Verne because I think their stories also tell us of the importance of the stories that we tell each other about the future more generally.
Because these stories don't just transmit information or ideas.
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