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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.

David McCullough

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David McCullough
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 7
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To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
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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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Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams
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You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition.
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My strong feeling is that we must learn more about how we learn. I'm convinced that we learn by struggling to find the solution to a problem on our own with some guidance, but getting in and getting our hands dirty and working it.
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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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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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I had been writing for about twelve years. I knew pretty well how you could find things out, but I had never been trained in an academic way how to go about the research.
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You can't love what you don't know much about. You can't convince, stimulate, hold the attention, teach, if you don't know what you're talking about.
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America faces an enemy who believes in enforced ignorance. And all that we stand for is the open mind, the generous spirit, the ideal of tolerance, freedom, education, opportunity.
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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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You've got to marinate your head, in that time and culture. You've got to become them. (Speaking about researching, and reading, and immersing yourself in History)
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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.'
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If the attitude of the teacher toward the material is positive, enthusiastic, committed and excited, the students get that. If the teacher is bored, students get that and they get bored, quickly, instinctively.
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The most interesting people are never perfect.
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May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.
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We all know the old expression, I'll work my thoughts out on paper. There's something about the pen that focuses the brain in a way that nothing else does. That is why we must have more writing in the schools, more writing in all subjects, not just in English classes.
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History isn't just what happened, but what happened to whom and why and what would have been different if the cast of characters had been different.
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My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the army and the war. It's the nadir, the low point of the United States of America.
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Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.
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