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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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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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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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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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Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.
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The first of all qualities of a general is courage.
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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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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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The more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them.
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Unlike the people you see in Mathew Brady's photographs from the Civil War, the men and women of the Revolution seem more like characters in a costume pageant. And it's a pageant in which the performers are all handsome as stage actors, with uniforms and dress that are always costume perfect.
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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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Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.
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It would be the most crucial day of the entire war.
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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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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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My wife, the star I steer by.
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Real success is finding your life work in the work that you love. That's it. Don't worry about making a living, don't worry about popularity or fame. Make what you do ... count more than what you own.
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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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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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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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There's no such thing as a foreseeable future.
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