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The truth isn't just the facts. You can have all the facts imaginable and miss the truth, just as you can have facts missing or some wrong, and reach the larger truth.
David McCullough
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David McCullough
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 7
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Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.
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Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams
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You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.
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Nobody ever lived in the past.
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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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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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I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene
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It would be the most crucial day of the entire war.
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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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It was an utterly phenomenal achievement.
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Each generation, we peel back biases that have blinded those before us. The more we know about the past enables us to ask richer and more provocative questions about who we are today.
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