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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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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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There are people who are trying to write history for the general reader who can be quite tedious. That said, I do feel in my heart of hearts that if history isn't well written, it isn't going to be read, and if it isn't read it's going to die.
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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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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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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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Napoleon could never imagine that some people loved their country as much as he loved his own.
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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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There is a human longing to go back to other times. We all know how when we were children we asked our parents, What was it like when you were a kid? I think it probably has something to do with our survival as a species.
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You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition.
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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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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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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 feel that history is in many ways the most important of all subjects because it is about everything and because it's about who we are and how we came to be the way we are.
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My strong feeling is that we must learn more about how we learn. I'm convinced that we learn by struggling to find the solution to a problem on our own with some guidance, but getting in and getting our hands dirty and working it.
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It would be the most crucial day of the entire war.
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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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The past after all is only another name for someone else's present.
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