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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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I am adamant that we must not cut back on funding of the teaching of the arts in the schools: music, painting, theater, dance, all of it. The great thing about the arts is that the only way you learn how to do it is by doing it.
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The evil of technology was not technology itself, Lindbergh came to see after the war, not in airplanes or the myriad contrivances of modern technical igenuity, but in the extent to which they can distance us from our better moral nature, or sense of personal accountability.
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The more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them.
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In fact, it was the largest expeditionary force of the 18th century. The largest, most powerful force ever set forth from Britain or any nation.
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America faces an enemy who believes in enforced ignorance. And all that we stand for is the open mind, the generous spirit, the ideal of tolerance, freedom, education, opportunity.
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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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May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.
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The past after all is only another name for someone else's present.
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To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
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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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Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams
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We are raising a generation of young Americans who are, to a very large degree, historically illiterate. It's not their faults. There's no problem about enlisting their interest in history. None. The problem is the teachers so often have no history in their background.
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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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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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My wife, the star I steer by.
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Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.
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I don't pick my presidents because they were great presidents. I'm not much interested in ranking presidents and who is the best and who is the worst. I am much more inclined to be interested in them if they had an interesting life and if they were a complete person - and by that I mean they also had flaws and failings.
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Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.
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It would be the most crucial day of the entire war.
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When a friend of Abigail and John Adams was killed at Bunker Hill, Abigail's response was to write a letter to her husband and include these words, My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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