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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.
David McCullough
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David McCullough
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 7
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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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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.
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To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
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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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They must be cool but determined...he threatened instant death to any man who showed cowardice.
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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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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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Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.
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Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.
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My wife, the star I steer by.
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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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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 lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene
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