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David McCullough
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David McCullough
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 7
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The first of all qualities of a general is courage.
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First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.
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The most interesting people are never perfect.
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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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You can't learn to play the piano without playing the piano, you can't learn to write without writing, and, in many ways, you can't learn to think without thinking. Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.
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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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Courage is contagious. If a leader shows courage, others get the idea.
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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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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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There is only one person who can measure your success. That person is you.
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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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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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Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.
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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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Never assume that people in positions of responsibility are behaving responsibly.
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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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Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.
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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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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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