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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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David McCullough
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 7
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Nobody ever lived in the past.
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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 just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities.
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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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You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition.
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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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If the attitude of the teacher toward the material is positive, enthusiastic, committed and excited, the students get that. If the teacher is bored, students get that and they get bored, quickly, instinctively.
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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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Each generation, we peel back biases that have blinded those before us. The more we know about the past enables us to ask richer and more provocative questions about who we are today.
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You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.
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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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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 think it is one of the most extraordinary elections, a turning point for our country and for the world. That remarkable young man [Barack Obama] has kept his demeanor, kept his temperament and has shown a power to inspire. I see what energy that he has inspired among the young. Well, it inspires us old goats too.
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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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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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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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They must be cool but determined...he threatened instant death to any man who showed cowardice.
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Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.
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History isn't just what happened, but what happened to whom and why and what would have been different if the cast of characters had been different.
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I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene.
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