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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.'

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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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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Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.
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There's no such thing as a foreseeable future.
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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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There are no people on earth in whom a spirit of enthusiastic zeal is so readily kindled, and burns so remarkably, as Americans
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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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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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Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.
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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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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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Napoleon could never imagine that some people loved their country as much as he loved his own.
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I want people to see that all-important time in a different way-in the way it was. For of a number of reasons, including the absence of photographs, we tend to see the men and women of the Revolution as not quite real. And we have far too little sense of what they suffered.
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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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Real success is finding your life work in the work that you love. That's it. Don't worry about making a living, don't worry about popularity or fame. Make what you do ... count more than what you own.
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There is only one person who can measure your success. That person is you.
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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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Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.
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I think that we need history as much as we need bread or water or love.
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May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.
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