"A nation that forgets its past can function……" — David McCullough
"A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia."
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96 Quotes by David McCullough
David McCullough has 96 quotes on this site.
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There is only one person who can measure your success. That person is you.
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Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.
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Washington had performed his role to perfection. It was no enough that a leader look the part; by Washington's rules,…
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In fact, it was the largest expeditionary force of the 18th century. The largest, most powerful force ever set forth…
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The first of all qualities of a general is courage.
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Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.
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The preparations were elaborate and mammoth in scale, and Washington threw himself into the effort, demanding that not an hour…
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They must be cool but determined...he threatened instant death to any man who showed cowardice.
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To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
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...Had proven himself a leader of remarkable ability, a man not only of enterprising ideas, but with the staying power…
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We must not think of learning as only what happens in schools. It is an extended part of life. The…
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Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.
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Playing and fun are not the same thing, though when we grow up we may forget that and find ourselves…
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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
— Jean Baudrillard
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I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.
— Luis Bunuel
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Success lulls you. It makes the most ambitious of us complacent and sloppy. In a way, you have to cultivate…
— Pat Summitt
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The great thing about baseball is when you're done, you'll only tell your grandchildren the good things. If they ask…
— Sparky Anderson
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We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?
— John Guare
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The music industry is really funny, when you have a hit record, everyone knows who are you, everyone wants to…
— Seal
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To say goodbye is not to develop amnesia
— Unknown Author
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Every woman who has had experience with sexual violence of any kind has not just pain, and not just hurt,…
— Andrea Dworkin
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The memory of what is not may be better than the amnesia of what is.
— Robert Smithson
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
— Jack Horner
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I was raised in an Irish-American home in Detroit where assimilation was the uppermost priority. The price of assimilation and…
— Tom Hayden
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