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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)

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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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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My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the army and the war. It's the nadir, the low point of the United States of America.
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Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.
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My strong feeling is that we must learn more about how we learn. I'm convinced that we learn by struggling to find the solution to a problem on our own with some guidance, but getting in and getting our hands dirty and working it.
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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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How can we know who we are and where we are going if we don't know anything about where we have come from and what we have been through, the courage shown, the costs paid, to be where we are?
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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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History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
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They must be cool but determined...he threatened instant death to any man who showed cowardice.
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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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May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.
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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 more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them.
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I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene
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Never assume that people in positions of responsibility are behaving responsibly.
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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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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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