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I think that we need history as much as we need bread or water or love.

David McCullough

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David McCullough
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 7
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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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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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There are no people on earth in whom a spirit of enthusiastic zeal is so readily kindled, and burns so remarkably, as Americans
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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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Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project.
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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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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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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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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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It was an utterly phenomenal achievement.
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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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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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Never assume that people in positions of responsibility are behaving responsibly.
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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 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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There is only one person who can measure your success. That person is you.
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Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.
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I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene.
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