History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

David McCullough
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  3. Beliefs are our foundation and our guiding compass, navigating us through life. - Kim Ha Campbell

  4. ITS nomimal without all on transfer of regard, that weight of a measure of lines cannot be equal in comparison. The want of privacy is a need of personality not character. Only through devotional love not modernity can you coolect the past, present and future.... - Robert Wesley Miller

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More Quotes By David McCullough
  1. To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is."; NEH 2003 Jefferson Lecturer interview profile]

  2. Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.

  3. Let the children have their night of fun and laughter. Let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures before we turn again to the stern task and the formidable years that lie before...

  4. Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.", July/Aug. 2002, Vol. 23/No. 4)

  5. No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.", NEH Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities 2003)

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