QUOTES by David McCullough
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"Let no girl, no gun, no cards, no flutes, no violins, no dress, no tobacco, no laziness decoy you from your books."
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"We believed in a good God, a bad Devil, and a hot Hell, and more than anything else we believed that same God did not intend man should ever fly."
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"Measurements "are never enough. The artist's eye and desire to breathe life into the subject must be the deciding factors."
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"Lord, grant that I may always be right, for Thou knowest I am hard to turn,"
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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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"A veteran artist counsels a less experienced one to start a painting using colors in the middle range so that the painter can move to more extreme colors as the work progresses."
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"In an exhibition wherein paintings of nudes were commonplace, that of Madame Gautreau in her black evening dress was considered scandalously erotic. -from The Greater Journey"
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"The clock would be simple if you destroyed all the wheels�.�.�. but it would not tell the time of day.” On"
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"Make business first, pleasure afterward, and that guarded. All the money anyone needs is just enough to prevent one from being a burden on others. He made a point of treating"
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"He loved politics in large part exactly because it meant time spent with men like Cactus Jack Garner(who would be remembered for observing that the vice presidency was not worth a pitcher of warm piss)."
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"It is in Paris that the beating of Europe’s heart is felt. Paris is the city of cities." - Victor Hugo"
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"The study of history is an antidote to the hubris of the present – the idea that everything we have, everything we do and everything we think is the ultimate, the best."
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"Patience which I assure you requires more force of character than does action."
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"Adams was both a devout Christian and an independent thinker, and he saw no conflict in that."
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"Those for whom things came easily usually made less of an effort, not more."
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"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."
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"Honesty, sincerity, and openness, I esteem essential marks of a good mind,"
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"Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots,” and"
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"Because it’s of more importance to community, that innocence should be protected, than it is, that guilt should be punished."
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"The only way to compose myself and collect my thoughts," he wrote in his diary,"is to set down at my table, place my diary before me, and take my pen into my hand."
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"A man who will steal for me will steal from me." Theodore Roosevelt, dismissing on the spot one of his best cowhands who was about to claim for his boss an unmarked animal."
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"I feel that as much as I enjoy loafing, there is something higher for which to live."
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"As the Sword was the last resort for the preservation of our liberties, so it ought to be the first thing laid aside when those liberties are firmly established"
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"There are no people on earth in whom a spirit of enthusiastic zeal is so readily kindled, and burns so remarkably, as Americans"
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"Indeed, bribery, favoritism, and corruption in a great variety of forms were rampant not only in politics, but in all levels of society."
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"In truth, the situation was worse than they realized, and no one perceived this as clearly as Washington. Seeing things as they were, and not as he would wish them to be, was one of his salient strengths."
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"The best dividends on the labor invested have invariably come from seeking more knowledge rather than more power.” Signed Wilbur and Orville Wright, March 12, 1906."
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"We dared to hope we had invented something that would bring lasting peace to the earth. But we were wrong.�.�.�"
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"We learn much by tribulation, and by adversity our hearts are made better."
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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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"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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"It was a day and age that saw no reason why one could not learn whatever was required - learn vitally anything - by the close study of books."
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"The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think....Let us dare to read, think, speak, write."
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"All the money anyone needs is just enough to prevent one from being a burden on others."
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"The great thing about the arts is that you can only learn to do it by doing it."
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"How can we know who we are and where we are going if we don't know anything about where we have come from and what we have been through, the courage shown, the costs paid, to be where we are?"
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"If I were giving a young man advice as to how he might succeed in life, I would say to him, pick out a good father and mother, and begin life in Ohio. WILBUR WRIGHT"
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