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It was an utterly phenomenal achievement.

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David McCullough
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 7
Author
Biographer
Historian
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Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
David Gaub McCullough
David G. McCullough
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Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.
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It would be the most crucial day of the entire war.
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Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.
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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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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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I think that we need history as much as we need bread or water or love.
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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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To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
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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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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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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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You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition.
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Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.
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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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The past after all is only another name for someone else's present.
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Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.
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In fact, it was the largest expeditionary force of the 18th century. The largest, most powerful force ever set forth from Britain or any nation.
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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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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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People often ask me if I'm working on a book. That's not how I feel. I feel like I work in a book. It's like putting myself under a spell. And this spell, if you will, is so real to me that if I have to leave my work for a few days, I have to work myself back into the spell when I come back. It's almost like hypnosis.
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