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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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To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
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Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams
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The past after all is only another name for someone else's present.
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Nobody ever lived in the past.
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