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

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Source : FaceBook post by David McCullough from Aug 13, 2012

David McCullough

#History Quotes #Who We Are Quotes #Way Quotes

“The greatest pleasure in life is love.”

Source : Sir William Temple, Jonathan Swift, Lady Martha Giffard (1740). “The life and character of Sir William Temple, written by a particular friend [his sister Lady Giffard] Observations upon the United provinces of the Netherlands. Miscellanea. Memoirs, the third part, from the peace concluded 1679 to the time of the author's retirement from publick business. Memoirs of what past in Christendom from the war begun 1672, to the peace concluded 1679”, p.309
“You wind up listening to one song that you really like 30 times on YouTube and then you're done with it. That's the way it is.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity.”
“Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.”
“"When in your life were you the most challenged?" I love to hear stories of adversity and how people overcome them.”
“If it hurt me to have to give up a painting I figured it had to hurt them to write the check. That's how I came up with the price for my work.”

Source : Interview with John Rogers, 2008.
“big plans require big action”
“As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.”

Source : James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.406

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