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I feel that history is in many ways the most important of all subjects because it is about everything and because it's about who we are and how we came to be the way we are.

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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The evil of technology was not technology itself, Lindbergh came to see after the war, not in airplanes or the myriad contrivances of modern technical igenuity, but in the extent to which they can distance us from our better moral nature, or sense of personal accountability.
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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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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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There's no such thing as a foreseeable future.
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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.
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Never assume that people in positions of responsibility are behaving responsibly.
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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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Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.
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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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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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I think that we need history as much as we need bread or water or love.
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Nobody ever lived in the past.
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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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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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The most interesting people are never perfect.
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The past after all is only another name for someone else's present.
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Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project.
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