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David McCullough
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 7
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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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I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene
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Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.
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Nobody ever lived in the past.
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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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The most interesting people are never perfect.
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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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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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I think that we need history as much as we need bread or water or love.
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People often ask me if I'm working on a book. That's not how I feel. I feel like I work in a book. It's like putting myself under a spell. And this spell, if you will, is so real to me that if I have to leave my work for a few days, I have to work myself back into the spell when I come back. It's almost like hypnosis.
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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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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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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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Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams
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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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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 don't pick my presidents because they were great presidents. I'm not much interested in ranking presidents and who is the best and who is the worst. I am much more inclined to be interested in them if they had an interesting life and if they were a complete person - and by that I mean they also had flaws and failings.
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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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The more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them.
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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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