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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.

David McCullough

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David McCullough
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 7
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Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams
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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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Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.
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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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