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You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition.

David McCullough

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David McCullough
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 7
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Nobody ever lived in the past.
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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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I think it's best to pick a biographical subject who lives to a ripe old age. Older people tend to relax and speak their minds. They're dropping some of the masks that they've been wearing. There's a candor.
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The past after all is only another name for someone else's present.
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Never assume that people in positions of responsibility are behaving responsibly.
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The fulfilling life, the distinctive life, the relevant life, is an achievement... To do whatever you do for no reason other than you love it and believe in its importance.
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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 first of all qualities of a general is courage.
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Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams
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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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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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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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