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The past after all is only another name for someone else's present.
David McCullough
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David McCullough
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 7
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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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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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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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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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Home is really where education does begin.
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Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.
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You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition.
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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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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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There is only one person who can measure your success. That person is you.
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If the attitude of the teacher toward the material is positive, enthusiastic, committed and excited, the students get that. If the teacher is bored, students get that and they get bored, quickly, instinctively.
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My wife, the star I steer by.
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Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.
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Unlike the people you see in Mathew Brady's photographs from the Civil War, the men and women of the Revolution seem more like characters in a costume pageant. And it's a pageant in which the performers are all handsome as stage actors, with uniforms and dress that are always costume perfect.
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There are no people on earth in whom a spirit of enthusiastic zeal is so readily kindled, and burns so remarkably, as Americans
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Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.
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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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You've got to marinate your head, in that time and culture. You've got to become them. (Speaking about researching, and reading, and immersing yourself in History)
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