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I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene.

David McCullough

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David McCullough
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 7
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Pittsburg
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David Gaub McCullough
David G. McCullough
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Your education never stops and college is just the beginning. You come out of college with a huge advantage in that you've ideally and more times than not you've come out with a love of learning and that's what matters above all.
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There's no such thing as a foreseeable future.
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Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.
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Never assume that people in positions of responsibility are behaving responsibly.
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There is only one person who can measure your success. That person is you.
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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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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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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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I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene
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You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition.
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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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You've got to marinate your head, in that time and culture. You've got to become them. (Speaking about researching, and reading, and immersing yourself in History)
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They must be cool but determined...he threatened instant death to any man who showed cowardice.
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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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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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I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities.
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My wife, the star I steer by.
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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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May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.
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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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