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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.
David McCullough
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David McCullough
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 7
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Courage is contagious. If a leader shows courage, others get the idea.
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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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I am adamant that we must not cut back on funding of the teaching of the arts in the schools: music, painting, theater, dance, all of it. The great thing about the arts is that the only way you learn how to do it is by doing it.
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There's no such thing as a foreseeable future.
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Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.
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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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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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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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You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.
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I want people to see that all-important time in a different way-in the way it was. For of a number of reasons, including the absence of photographs, we tend to see the men and women of the Revolution as not quite real. And we have far too little sense of what they suffered.
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The truth isn't just the facts. You can have all the facts imaginable and miss the truth, just as you can have facts missing or some wrong, and reach the larger truth.
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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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There is a human longing to go back to other times. We all know how when we were children we asked our parents, What was it like when you were a kid? I think it probably has something to do with our survival as a species.
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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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Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.
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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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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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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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You can't learn to play the piano without playing the piano, you can't learn to write without writing, and, in many ways, you can't learn to think without thinking. Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.
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Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.
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