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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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David Gaub McCullough
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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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You can't learn to play the piano without playing the piano, you can't learn to write without writing, and, in many ways, you can't learn to think without thinking. Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.
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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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Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.
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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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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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Read. Read. Read. Read. Read great books. Read poetry, history, biography. Read the novels that have stood the test of time. And read closely.
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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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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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The past after all is only another name for someone else's present.
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It was an utterly phenomenal achievement.
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You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition.
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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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