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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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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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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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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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The most interesting people are never perfect.
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I had been writing for about twelve years. I knew pretty well how you could find things out, but I had never been trained in an academic way how to go about the research.
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The first of all qualities of a general is courage.
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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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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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I feel that history is in many ways the most important of all subjects because it is about everything and because it's about who we are and how we came to be the way we are.
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We are raising a generation of young Americans who are, to a very large degree, historically illiterate. It's not their faults. There's no problem about enlisting their interest in history. None. The problem is the teachers so often have no history in their background.
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Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams
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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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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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Napoleon could never imagine that some people loved their country as much as he loved his own.
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They must be cool but determined...he threatened instant death to any man who showed cowardice.
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Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.
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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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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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