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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.
David McCullough
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David McCullough
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 7
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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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Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.
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Read. Read. Read. Read. Read great books. Read poetry, history, biography. Read the novels that have stood the test of time. And read closely.
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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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The more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them.
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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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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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A leader must look and act the part.
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You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition.
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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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You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.
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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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