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Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.

David McCullough

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David McCullough
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 7
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Pittsburg
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David Gaub McCullough
David G. McCullough
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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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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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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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I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene.
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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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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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Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.
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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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I think that a good education ought to be in part the idea that ease and joy are not synonymous. Some of the most fulfilling pleasures of life are to be found in work - found in work you love to do, work you want to do, work that makes you want to get out of bed in the morning.
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There is only one person who can measure your success. That person is you.
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Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.
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Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams
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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 most interesting people are never perfect.
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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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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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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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My wife, the star I steer by.
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