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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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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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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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Since September 11, it seems to me that never in our lifetime, except possibly in the early stages of World War II, has it been clearer that we have as a source of strength, a source of direction, a source of inspiration - our story.
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The past after all is only another name for someone else's present.
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Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.
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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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First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.
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