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I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities.

David McCullough

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David McCullough
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 7
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The truth isn't just the facts. You can have all the facts imaginable and miss the truth, just as you can have facts missing or some wrong, and reach the larger truth.
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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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Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams
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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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The more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them.
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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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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 evil of technology was not technology itself, Lindbergh came to see after the war, not in airplanes or the myriad contrivances of modern technical igenuity, but in the extent to which they can distance us from our better moral nature, or sense of personal accountability.
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The most interesting people are never perfect.
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Never assume that people in positions of responsibility are behaving responsibly.
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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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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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Nobody ever lived in the past.
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I'm absolutely positive it's in our human nature to want to know about the past. The two most popular movies of all time, while not historically accurate, are about core historic events: 'Gone With the Wind' and 'Titanic.'
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My wife, the star I steer by.
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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 can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.
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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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The first of all qualities of a general is courage.
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