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Your education never stops and college is just the beginning. You come out of college with a huge advantage in that you've ideally and more times than not you've come out with a love of learning and that's what matters above all.

David McCullough

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David McCullough
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 7
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I feel that what I do is a calling. I would pay to do what I do if I had to. I will never live long enough to do the work I want to do: the books I would like to write, the ideas I would like to explore.
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Nobody ever lived in the past.
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Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.
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Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.
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I think it is one of the most extraordinary elections, a turning point for our country and for the world. That remarkable young man [Barack Obama] has kept his demeanor, kept his temperament and has shown a power to inspire. I see what energy that he has inspired among the young. Well, it inspires us old goats too.
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I think that we need history as much as we need bread or water or love.
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It would be the most crucial day of the entire war.
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Read. Read. Read. Read. Read great books. Read poetry, history, biography. Read the novels that have stood the test of time. And read closely.
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There's no such thing as a foreseeable future.
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We must not think of learning as only what happens in schools. It is an extended part of life. The most readily available resource for all of life is our public library system.
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To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
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Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.
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Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams
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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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May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.
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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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History isn't just what happened, but what happened to whom and why and what would have been different if the cast of characters had been different.
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I think that a good education ought to be in part the idea that ease and joy are not synonymous. Some of the most fulfilling pleasures of life are to be found in work - found in work you love to do, work you want to do, work that makes you want to get out of bed in the morning.
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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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