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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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If the attitude of the teacher toward the material is positive, enthusiastic, committed and excited, the students get that. If the teacher is bored, students get that and they get bored, quickly, instinctively.
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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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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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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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In time I began to understand that it's when you start writing that you really find out what you don't know and need to know.
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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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We all know the old expression, I'll work my thoughts out on paper. There's something about the pen that focuses the brain in a way that nothing else does. That is why we must have more writing in the schools, more writing in all subjects, not just in English classes.
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The most interesting people are never perfect.
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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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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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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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Courage is contagious. If a leader shows courage, others get the idea.
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My wife, the star I steer by.
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The more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them.
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There's no such thing as a foreseeable future.
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America faces an enemy who believes in enforced ignorance. And all that we stand for is the open mind, the generous spirit, the ideal of tolerance, freedom, education, opportunity.
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Find something to do that you love because then the work itself is always the reward not the recompense. And if you love what you're doing you probably do better at it than doing something you don't love and therefore you'll be compensated appropriately.
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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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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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