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Courage is contagious. If a leader shows courage, others get the idea.

David McCullough

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David McCullough
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 7
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The past after all is only another name for someone else's present.
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Read. Read. Read. Read. Read great books. Read poetry, history, biography. Read the novels that have stood the test of time. And read closely.
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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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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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Never assume that people in positions of responsibility are behaving responsibly.
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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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There's no such thing as a foreseeable future.
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The talent, including the talent for history - and I do think there are people who just have a talent for it, the way you have a talent for public speaking or music or whatever - it shouldn't be allowed to lie dormant. It should be brought alive.
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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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A leader must look and act the part.
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I think that a good education ought to be in part the idea that ease and joy are not synonymous. Some of the most fulfilling pleasures of life are to be found in work - found in work you love to do, work you want to do, work that makes you want to get out of bed in the morning.
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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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There are no people on earth in whom a spirit of enthusiastic zeal is so readily kindled, and burns so remarkably, as Americans
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The more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them.
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You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition.
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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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I think that we need history as much as we need bread or water or love.
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There is a human longing to go back to other times. We all know how when we were children we asked our parents, What was it like when you were a kid? I think it probably has something to do with our survival as a species.
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They must be cool but determined...he threatened instant death to any man who showed cowardice.
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History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil, there is betrayal. That's why people should read Shakespeare and Dickens as well as history ~~ they will find the best, the worst, the height of noble attainment and the depths of depravity.
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