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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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David Gaub McCullough
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Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.
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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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Find something to do that you love because then the work itself is always the reward not the recompense. And if you love what you're doing you probably do better at it than doing something you don't love and therefore you'll be compensated appropriately.
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They must be cool but determined...he threatened instant death to any man who showed cowardice.
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Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.
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It was an utterly phenomenal achievement.
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Real success is finding your life work in the work that you love. That's it. Don't worry about making a living, don't worry about popularity or fame. Make what you do ... count more than what you own.
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The first of all qualities of a general is courage.
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Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams
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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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May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.
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I think it's best to pick a biographical subject who lives to a ripe old age. Older people tend to relax and speak their minds. They're dropping some of the masks that they've been wearing. There's a candor.
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