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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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Since September 11, it seems to me that never in our lifetime, except possibly in the early stages of World War II, has it been clearer that we have as a source of strength, a source of direction, a source of inspiration - our story.
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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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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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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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I don't pick my presidents because they were great presidents. I'm not much interested in ranking presidents and who is the best and who is the worst. I am much more inclined to be interested in them if they had an interesting life and if they were a complete person - and by that I mean they also had flaws and failings.
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It would be the most crucial day of the entire war.
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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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They must be cool but determined...he threatened instant death to any man who showed cowardice.
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Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project.
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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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Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams
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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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You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.
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Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.
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May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.
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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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The talent, including the talent for history - and I do think there are people who just have a talent for it, the way you have a talent for public speaking or music or whatever - it shouldn't be allowed to lie dormant. It should be brought alive.
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The most interesting people are never perfect.
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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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There is only one person who can measure your success. That person is you.
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