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You can't love what you don't know much about. You can't convince, stimulate, hold the attention, teach, if you don't know what you're talking about.

David McCullough

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David McCullough
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 7
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Biographer
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Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
David Gaub McCullough
David G. McCullough
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May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.
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Courage is contagious. If a leader shows courage, others get the idea.
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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 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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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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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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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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It was an utterly phenomenal achievement.
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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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I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene.
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There is only one person who can measure your success. That person is you.
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People are so helpful. People will stop what they're doing to show you something, to walk with you through a section of the town, or explain how a suspension bridge really works.
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Nobody ever lived in the past.
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They must be cool but determined...he threatened instant death to any man who showed cowardice.
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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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Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.
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I want people to see that all-important time in a different way-in the way it was. For of a number of reasons, including the absence of photographs, we tend to see the men and women of the Revolution as not quite real. And we have far too little sense of what they suffered.
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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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You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition.
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