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It was an utterly phenomenal achievement.

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David McCullough
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 7
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Biographer
Historian
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Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
David Gaub McCullough
David G. McCullough
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My wife, the star I steer by.
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It would be the most crucial day of the entire war.
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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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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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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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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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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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Napoleon could never imagine that some people loved their country as much as he loved his own.
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There's no such thing as a foreseeable future.
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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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History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
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The past after all is only another name for someone else's present.
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We are raising a generation of young Americans who are, to a very large degree, historically illiterate. It's not their faults. There's no problem about enlisting their interest in history. None. The problem is the teachers so often have no history in their background.
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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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Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.
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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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Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams
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I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene.
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