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To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
David McCullough
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David McCullough
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 7
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David Gaub McCullough
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Each generation, we peel back biases that have blinded those before us. The more we know about the past enables us to ask richer and more provocative questions about who we are today.
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The first of all qualities of a general is courage.
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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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Nobody ever lived in the past.
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There's no such thing as a foreseeable future.
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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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In fact, it was the largest expeditionary force of the 18th century. The largest, most powerful force ever set forth from Britain or any nation.
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We must not think of learning as only what happens in schools. It is an extended part of life. The most readily available resource for all of life is our public library system.
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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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How can we know who we are and where we are going if we don't know anything about where we have come from and what we have been through, the courage shown, the costs paid, to be where we are?
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May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.
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First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.
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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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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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Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.
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History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
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Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.
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The past after all is only another name for someone else's present.
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