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Nobody ever lived in the past.

David McCullough

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David McCullough
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 7
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Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
David Gaub McCullough
David G. McCullough
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Each generation, we peel back biases that have blinded those before us. The more we know about the past enables us to ask richer and more provocative questions about who we are today.
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You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition.
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It was an utterly phenomenal achievement.
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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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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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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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Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.
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They must be cool but determined...he threatened instant death to any man who showed cowardice.
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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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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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Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.
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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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I think that we need history as much as we need bread or water or love.
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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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Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams
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The more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them.
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To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
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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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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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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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