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From Quotes by David McCullough
- In fact, it was the largest expeditionary force of the 18th century. The largest, most powerful force ever set forth from Britain or any nation.
- Develop and protect a moral sensibility and demonstrate the character to apply it. Dream big. Work hard. Think for yourself. Love everything you love, everyone…
- Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.
- 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…
- Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.
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