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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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Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.
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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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The most interesting people are never perfect.
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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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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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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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Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.
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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 love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene.
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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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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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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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To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
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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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A leader must look and act the part.
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I feel that what I do is a calling. I would pay to do what I do if I had to. I will never live long enough to do the work I want to do: the books I would like to write, the ideas I would like to explore.
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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's no such thing as a foreseeable future.
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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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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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