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First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.
David McCullough
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David McCullough
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 7
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In time I began to understand that it's when you start writing that you really find out what you don't know and need to know.
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You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.
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You can't love what you don't know much about. You can't convince, stimulate, hold the attention, teach, if you don't know what you're talking about.
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Napoleon could never imagine that some people loved their country as much as he loved his own.
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