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You can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past. They lived in the present. It is their present, not our present, and they don't know how it's going to come out. They weren't

You can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past. They lived in the present. It is their present, not our present, and they don't know how it's going to come out. They weren't just like we are because they lived in that very different time. You can't understand them if you don't understand how they perceived reality.

David McCullough
Past, Reality, Different
Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov.

A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.

David McCullough
Past, History, Forget

The past after all is only another name for someone else's present.

David McCullough
Past, Names
David McCullough (2007). “Brave Companions”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

Each generation, we peel back biases that have blinded those before us. The more we know about the past enables us to ask richer and more provocative questions about who we are today.

David McCullough
Past, Generations, Who We Are

First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.

David McCullough
Past, Firsts, Argument
Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. 2003.

Nobody ever lived in the past.

David McCullough
Past
"Face the Nation April 16, 2017 transcript: McCullough, Chiefs of Staff and a Look at Faith in America". "Face the Nation" with John Dickerson, www.cbsnews.com. April 16, 2017.

I'm absolutely positive it's in our human nature to want to know about the past. The two most popular movies of all time, while not historically accurate, are about core historic events: 'Gone With the Wind' and 'Titanic.'

David McCullough
Past, Wind, Two
Source: www.neh.gov

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