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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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The talent, including the talent for history - and I do think there are people who just have a talent for it, the way you have a talent for public speaking or music or whatever - it shouldn't be allowed to lie dormant. It should be brought alive.
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The most interesting people are never perfect.
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Courage is contagious. If a leader shows courage, others get the idea.
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Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.
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Never assume that people in positions of responsibility are behaving responsibly.
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Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.
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I think that we need history as much as we need bread or water or love.
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The more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them.
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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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Napoleon could never imagine that some people loved their country as much as he loved his own.
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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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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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Home is really where education does begin.
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The first of all qualities of a general is courage.
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There are people who are trying to write history for the general reader who can be quite tedious. That said, I do feel in my heart of hearts that if history isn't well written, it isn't going to be read, and if it isn't read it's going to die.
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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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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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