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You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.
David McCullough
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David McCullough
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 7
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David Gaub McCullough
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I think it's best to pick a biographical subject who lives to a ripe old age. Older people tend to relax and speak their minds. They're dropping some of the masks that they've been wearing. There's a candor.
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I feel that history is in many ways the most important of all subjects because it is about everything and because it's about who we are and how we came to be the way we are.
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Nobody ever lived in the past.
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Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.
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Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.
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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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Home is really where education does begin.
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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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Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.
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Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.
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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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There are people who are trying to write history for the general reader who can be quite tedious. That said, I do feel in my heart of hearts that if history isn't well written, it isn't going to be read, and if it isn't read it's going to die.
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Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.
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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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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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Napoleon could never imagine that some people loved their country as much as he loved his own.
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We are raising a generation of young Americans who are, to a very large degree, historically illiterate. It's not their faults. There's no problem about enlisting their interest in history. None. The problem is the teachers so often have no history in their background.
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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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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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Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams
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