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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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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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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 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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May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.
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Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.
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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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Never assume that people in positions of responsibility are behaving responsibly.
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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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I think that we need history as much as we need bread or water or love.
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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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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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It was an utterly phenomenal achievement.
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The most interesting people are never perfect.
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My wife, the star I steer by.
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It would be the most crucial day of the entire war.
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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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I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene
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Courage is contagious. If a leader shows courage, others get the idea.
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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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Napoleon could never imagine that some people loved their country as much as he loved his own.
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