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There is only one person who can measure your success. That person is you.
David McCullough
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David McCullough
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 7
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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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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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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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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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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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The most interesting people are never perfect.
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Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.
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May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.
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The more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them.
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Nobody ever lived in the past.
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You can't learn to play the piano without playing the piano, you can't learn to write without writing, and, in many ways, you can't learn to think without thinking. Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.
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A leader must look and act the part.
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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 evil of technology was not technology itself, Lindbergh came to see after the war, not in airplanes or the myriad contrivances of modern technical igenuity, but in the extent to which they can distance us from our better moral nature, or sense of personal accountability.
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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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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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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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