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Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.

David McCullough

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David McCullough
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 7
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David Gaub McCullough
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There is a human longing to go back to other times. We all know how when we were children we asked our parents, What was it like when you were a kid? I think it probably has something to do with our survival as a species.
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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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There are no people on earth in whom a spirit of enthusiastic zeal is so readily kindled, and burns so remarkably, as Americans
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I want people to see that all-important time in a different way-in the way it was. For of a number of reasons, including the absence of photographs, we tend to see the men and women of the Revolution as not quite real. And we have far too little sense of what they suffered.
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It would be the most crucial day of the entire war.
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Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.
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To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
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You've got to marinate your head, in that time and culture. You've got to become them. (Speaking about researching, and reading, and immersing yourself in History)
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Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.
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May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.
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I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities.
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People are so helpful. People will stop what they're doing to show you something, to walk with you through a section of the town, or explain how a suspension bridge really works.
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Unlike the people you see in Mathew Brady's photographs from the Civil War, the men and women of the Revolution seem more like characters in a costume pageant. And it's a pageant in which the performers are all handsome as stage actors, with uniforms and dress that are always costume perfect.
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Each generation, we peel back biases that have blinded those before us. The more we know about the past enables us to ask richer and more provocative questions about who we are today.
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Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams
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You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition.
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How can we know who we are and where we are going if we don't know anything about where we have come from and what we have been through, the courage shown, the costs paid, to be where we are?
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I feel that history is in many ways the most important of all subjects because it is about everything and because it's about who we are and how we came to be the way we are.
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Real success is finding your life work in the work that you love. That's it. Don't worry about making a living, don't worry about popularity or fame. Make what you do ... count more than what you own.
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Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.
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