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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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Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.
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Home is really where education does begin.
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Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.
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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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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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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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If you get down about the state of American culture, just remember there are still more public libraries in this country than there are McDonalds.
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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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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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Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.
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Real success is finding your life work in the work that you love. That's it. Don't worry about making a living, don't worry about popularity or fame. Make what you do ... count more than what you own.
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I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene.
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We must not think of learning as only what happens in schools. It is an extended part of life. The most readily available resource for all of life is our public library system.
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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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There is only one person who can measure your success. That person is you.
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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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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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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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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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It was an utterly phenomenal achievement.
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