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Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.
David McCullough
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David McCullough
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 7
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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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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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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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Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.
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Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.
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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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There is only one person who can measure your success. That person is you.
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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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You've got to marinate your head, in that time and culture. You've got to become them. (Speaking about researching, and reading, and immersing yourself in History)
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The more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them.
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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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I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene
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I had been writing for about twelve years. I knew pretty well how you could find things out, but I had never been trained in an academic way how to go about the research.
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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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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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I think that we need history as much as we need bread or water or love.
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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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A leader must look and act the part.
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I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene.
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