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Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.

David McCullough

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David McCullough
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 7
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Pittsburg
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David Gaub McCullough
David G. McCullough
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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 truth isn't just the facts. You can have all the facts imaginable and miss the truth, just as you can have facts missing or some wrong, and reach the larger truth.
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The most interesting people are never perfect.
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The fulfilling life, the distinctive life, the relevant life, is an achievement... To do whatever you do for no reason other than you love it and believe in its importance.
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A leader must look and act the part.
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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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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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Never assume that people in positions of responsibility are behaving responsibly.
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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 is only one person who can measure your success. That person is you.
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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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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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America faces an enemy who believes in enforced ignorance. And all that we stand for is the open mind, the generous spirit, the ideal of tolerance, freedom, education, opportunity.
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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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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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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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Napoleon could never imagine that some people loved their country as much as he loved his own.
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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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