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David McCullough
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David McCullough
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 7
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Unlike the people you see in Mathew Brady's photographs from the Civil War, the men and women of the Revolution seem more like characters in a costume pageant. And it's a pageant in which the performers are all handsome as stage actors, with uniforms and dress that are always costume perfect.
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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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Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.
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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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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.
David McCullough
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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It would be the most crucial day of the entire war.
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May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.
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Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project.
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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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I think it's best to pick a biographical subject who lives to a ripe old age. Older people tend to relax and speak their minds. They're dropping some of the masks that they've been wearing. There's a candor.
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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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To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
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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.
David McCullough
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.
David McCullough
There's no such thing as a foreseeable future.
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Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.
David McCullough
There is only one person who can measure your success. That person is you.
David McCullough
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.
David McCullough
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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