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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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Since September 11, it seems to me that never in our lifetime, except possibly in the early stages of World War II, has it been clearer that we have as a source of strength, a source of direction, a source of inspiration - our story.
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How can we know who we are and where we are going if we don't know anything about where we have come from and what we have been through, the courage shown, the costs paid, to be where we are?
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People are so helpful. People will stop what they're doing to show you something, to walk with you through a section of the town, or explain how a suspension bridge really works.
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Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.
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I think it is one of the most extraordinary elections, a turning point for our country and for the world. That remarkable young man [Barack Obama] has kept his demeanor, kept his temperament and has shown a power to inspire. I see what energy that he has inspired among the young. Well, it inspires us old goats too.
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Courage is contagious. If a leader shows courage, others get the idea.
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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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I think that we need history as much as we need bread or water or love.
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It would be the most crucial day of the entire war.
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I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene.
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Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.
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My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the army and the war. It's the nadir, the low point of the United States of America.
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Home is really where education does begin.
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The first of all qualities of a general is courage.
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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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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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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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There's no such thing as a foreseeable future.
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There is only one person who can measure your success. That person is you.
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It was an utterly phenomenal achievement.
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