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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.

David McCullough

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David McCullough
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 7
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They must be cool but determined...he threatened instant death to any man who showed cowardice.
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The truth isn't just the facts. You can have all the facts imaginable and miss the truth, just as you can have facts missing or some wrong, and reach the larger truth.
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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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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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The first of all qualities of a general is courage.
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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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Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.
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You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition.
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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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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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There are people who are trying to write history for the general reader who can be quite tedious. That said, I do feel in my heart of hearts that if history isn't well written, it isn't going to be read, and if it isn't read it's going to die.
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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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Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.
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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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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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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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Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.
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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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Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.
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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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