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Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams

David McCullough

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David McCullough
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 7
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My wife, the star I steer by.
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To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
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It was an utterly phenomenal achievement.
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Courage is contagious. If a leader shows courage, others get the idea.
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Your education never stops and college is just the beginning. You come out of college with a huge advantage in that you've ideally and more times than not you've come out with a love of learning and that's what matters above all.
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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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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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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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You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition.
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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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America faces an enemy who believes in enforced ignorance. And all that we stand for is the open mind, the generous spirit, the ideal of tolerance, freedom, education, opportunity.
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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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You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.
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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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I think that we need history as much as we need bread or water or love.
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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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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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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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Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.
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The past after all is only another name for someone else's present.
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