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My wife, the star I steer by.

David McCullough

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David McCullough
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 7
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To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
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The first of all qualities of a general is courage.
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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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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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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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Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.
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I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene.
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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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Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.
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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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There are people who are trying to write history for the general reader who can be quite tedious. That said, I do feel in my heart of hearts that if history isn't well written, it isn't going to be read, and if it isn't read it's going to die.
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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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You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition.
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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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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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