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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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The evil of technology was not technology itself, Lindbergh came to see after the war, not in airplanes or the myriad contrivances of modern technical igenuity, but in the extent to which they can distance us from our better moral nature, or sense of personal accountability.
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Home is really where education does begin.
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People often ask me if I'm working on a book. That's not how I feel. I feel like I work in a book. It's like putting myself under a spell. And this spell, if you will, is so real to me that if I have to leave my work for a few days, I have to work myself back into the spell when I come back. It's almost like hypnosis.
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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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Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.
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You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition.
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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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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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In fact, it was the largest expeditionary force of the 18th century. The largest, most powerful force ever set forth from Britain or any nation.
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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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The past after all is only another name for someone else's present.
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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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Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.
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History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil, there is betrayal. That's why people should read Shakespeare and Dickens as well as history ~~ they will find the best, the worst, the height of noble attainment and the depths of depravity.
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May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.
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In time I began to understand that it's when you start writing that you really find out what you don't know and need to know.
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It was an utterly phenomenal achievement.
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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 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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Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.
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