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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.
David McCullough
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David McCullough
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 7
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I am adamant that we must not cut back on funding of the teaching of the arts in the schools: music, painting, theater, dance, all of it. The great thing about the arts is that the only way you learn how to do it is by doing it.
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The most interesting people are never perfect.
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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 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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I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities.
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You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition.
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Courage is contagious. If a leader shows courage, others get the idea.
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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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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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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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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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It was an utterly phenomenal achievement.
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Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.
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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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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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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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I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene
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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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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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