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Home is really where education does begin.

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David McCullough
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 7
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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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Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.
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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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How can we know who we are and where we are going if we don't know anything about where we have come from and what we have been through, the courage shown, the costs paid, to be where we are?
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The past after all is only another name for someone else's present.
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May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.
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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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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 first of all qualities of a general is courage.
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History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil, there is betrayal. That's why people should read Shakespeare and Dickens as well as history ~~ they will find the best, the worst, the height of noble attainment and the depths of depravity.
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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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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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Courage is contagious. If a leader shows courage, others get the idea.
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I think that we need history as much as we need bread or water or love.
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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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My strong feeling is that we must learn more about how we learn. I'm convinced that we learn by struggling to find the solution to a problem on our own with some guidance, but getting in and getting our hands dirty and working it.
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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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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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You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.
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There's no such thing as a foreseeable future.
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