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David Mccullough Inspirational Quotes (78)

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I don't pick my presidents because they were great presidents. I'm not much interested in ranking presidents and who is the best and who is the worst. I am much more inclined to be interested in them if they had an interesting life and if they were a complete person - and by that I mean they also had flaws and failings.
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When a friend of Abigail and John Adams was killed at Bunker Hill, Abigail's response was to write a letter to her husband and include these words, My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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Since September 11, it seems to me that never in our lifetime, except possibly in the early stages of World War II, has it been clearer that we have as a source of strength, a source of direction, a source of inspiration - our story.
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We must not think of learning as only what happens in schools. It is an extended part of life. The most readily available resource for all of life is our public library system.
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Find something to do that you love because then the work itself is always the reward not the recompense. And if you love what you're doing you probably do better at it than doing something you don't love and therefore you'll be compensated appropriately.
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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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Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.
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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.
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The talent, including the talent for history - and I do think there are people who just have a talent for it, the way you have a talent for public speaking or music or whatever - it shouldn't be allowed to lie dormant. It should be brought alive.
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People are so helpful. People will stop what they're doing to show you something, to walk with you through a section of the town, or explain how a suspension bridge really works.
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If you get down about the state of American culture, just remember there are still more public libraries in this country than there are McDonalds.
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Home is really where education does begin.
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Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.
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I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene.
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There is only one person who can measure your success. That person is you.
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My wife, the star I steer by.
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First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.
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Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project.
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I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities.
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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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Nobody ever lived in the past.
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The past after all is only another name for someone else's present.
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May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.
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You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition.
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