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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.

David McCullough

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David McCullough
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 7
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My wife, the star I steer by.
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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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Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.
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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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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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Real success is finding your life work in the work that you love. That's it. Don't worry about making a living, don't worry about popularity or fame. Make what you do ... count more than what you own.
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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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You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition.
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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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I feel that what I do is a calling. I would pay to do what I do if I had to. I will never live long enough to do the work I want to do: the books I would like to write, the ideas I would like to explore.
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We are raising a generation of young Americans who are, to a very large degree, historically illiterate. It's not their faults. There's no problem about enlisting their interest in history. None. The problem is the teachers so often have no history in their background.
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The more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them.
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