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Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.

David McCullough

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David McCullough
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 7
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Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
David Gaub McCullough
David G. McCullough
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The most interesting people are never perfect.
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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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They must be cool but determined...he threatened instant death to any man who showed cowardice.
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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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Courage is contagious. If a leader shows courage, others get the idea.
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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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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 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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May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.
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Home is really where education does begin.
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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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A leader must look and act the part.
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I think that we need history as much as we need bread or water or love.
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It was an utterly phenomenal achievement.
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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 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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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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Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.
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My wife, the star I steer by.
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You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition.
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