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I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene
David McCullough
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David McCullough
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 7
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People often ask me if I'm working on a book. That's not how I feel. I feel like I work in a book. It's like putting myself under a spell. And this spell, if you will, is so real to me that if I have to leave my work for a few days, I have to work myself back into the spell when I come back. It's almost like hypnosis.
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My strong feeling is that we must learn more about how we learn. I'm convinced that we learn by struggling to find the solution to a problem on our own with some guidance, but getting in and getting our hands dirty and working it.
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America faces an enemy who believes in enforced ignorance. And all that we stand for is the open mind, the generous spirit, the ideal of tolerance, freedom, education, opportunity.
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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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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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I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities.
David McCullough
Courage is contagious. If a leader shows courage, others get the idea.
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Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.
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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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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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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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Since September 11, it seems to me that never in our lifetime, except possibly in the early stages of World War II, has it been clearer that we have as a source of strength, a source of direction, a source of inspiration - our story.
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You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition.
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Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.
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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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Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.
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A leader must look and act the part.
David McCullough
To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
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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 think that we need history as much as we need bread or water or love.
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