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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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We are raising a generation of young Americans who are, to a very large degree, historically illiterate. It's not their faults. There's no problem about enlisting their interest in history. None. The problem is the teachers so often have no history in their background.
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May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.
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The most interesting people are never perfect.
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Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.
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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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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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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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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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It would be the most crucial day of the entire war.
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Courage is contagious. If a leader shows courage, others get the idea.
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I think that we need history as much as we need bread or water or love.
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The talent, including the talent for history - and I do think there are people who just have a talent for it, the way you have a talent for public speaking or music or whatever - it shouldn't be allowed to lie dormant. It should be brought alive.
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I'm absolutely positive it's in our human nature to want to know about the past. The two most popular movies of all time, while not historically accurate, are about core historic events: 'Gone With the Wind' and 'Titanic.'
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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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To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
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Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.
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Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.
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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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When a friend of Abigail and John Adams was killed at Bunker Hill, Abigail's response was to write a letter to her husband and include these words, My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.
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