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Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.
David McCullough
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David McCullough
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 7
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I feel that what I do is a calling. I would pay to do what I do if I had to. I will never live long enough to do the work I want to do: the books I would like to write, the ideas I would like to explore.
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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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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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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.
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The first of all qualities of a general is courage.
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May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.
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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 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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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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Nobody ever lived in the past.
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Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.
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Courage is contagious. If a leader shows courage, others get the idea.
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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 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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I don't pick my presidents because they were great presidents. I'm not much interested in ranking presidents and who is the best and who is the worst. I am much more inclined to be interested in them if they had an interesting life and if they were a complete person - and by that I mean they also had flaws and failings.
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I am adamant that we must not cut back on funding of the teaching of the arts in the schools: music, painting, theater, dance, all of it. The great thing about the arts is that the only way you learn how to do it is by doing it.
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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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Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.
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The past after all is only another name for someone else's present.
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