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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.
David McCullough
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David McCullough
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 7
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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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Napoleon could never imagine that some people loved their country as much as he loved his own.
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Courage is contagious. If a leader shows courage, others get the idea.
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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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I think it's best to pick a biographical subject who lives to a ripe old age. Older people tend to relax and speak their minds. They're dropping some of the masks that they've been wearing. There's a candor.
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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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I want people to see that all-important time in a different way-in the way it was. For of a number of reasons, including the absence of photographs, we tend to see the men and women of the Revolution as not quite real. And we have far too little sense of what they suffered.
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Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.
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People are so helpful. People will stop what they're doing to show you something, to walk with you through a section of the town, or explain how a suspension bridge really works.
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You can't love what you don't know much about. You can't convince, stimulate, hold the attention, teach, if you don't know what you're talking about.
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Nobody ever lived in the past.
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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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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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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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There's no such thing as a foreseeable future.
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I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene.
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