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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.
David McCullough
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David McCullough
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 7
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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 don't pick my presidents because they were great presidents. I'm not much interested in ranking presidents and who is the best and who is the worst. I am much more inclined to be interested in them if they had an interesting life and if they were a complete person - and by that I mean they also had flaws and failings.
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I had been writing for about twelve years. I knew pretty well how you could find things out, but I had never been trained in an academic way how to go about the research.
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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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