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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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The past after all is only another name for someone else's present.
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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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Never assume that people in positions of responsibility are behaving responsibly.
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There's no such thing as a foreseeable future.
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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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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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The more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them.
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They must be cool but determined...he threatened instant death to any man who showed cowardice.
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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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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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I don't pick my presidents because they were great presidents. I'm not much interested in ranking presidents and who is the best and who is the worst. I am much more inclined to be interested in them if they had an interesting life and if they were a complete person - and by that I mean they also had flaws and failings.
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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.
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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'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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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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Home is really where education does begin.
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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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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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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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May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.
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