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He held to the old guidelines: work hard, do your best, speak the truth, assume no airs, trust in God, have no fear. -- David Mccullough
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Three things ruin a man," Harry would tell a reporter long afterward. "Power, money, and women. "I never wanted power," he said. "I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now." On -- David Mccullough
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I think that a good education ought to be in part the idea that ease and joy are not synonymous. Some of the most fulfilling pleasures of life are to be found in work - found in work you love to do, work you want to do, work that makes you want to get out of bed in the morning. -- David Mccullough
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I believe there is no one principle which predominates in human nature so much in every stage of life, from the cradle to the grave, in males and females, old and young, black and white, rich and poor, high and low, as this passion for superiority. -- David Mccullough
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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love. -- David Mccullough
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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. -- David Mccullough
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Washington had performed his role to perfection. It was no enough that a leader look the part; by Washington's rules, he must know how to act it with self-command and precision. -- David Mccullough
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Truman had been sitting in a chair in the bedroom with several new books stacked on a table beside him. Did the President like to read himself to sleep at night, McCormick asked. "No, young man," said Truman, "I like to read myself awake." Thomas -- David Mccullough
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tocsin of an ideological crusade, has no limits," Lippmann warned. -- David Mccullough
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You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history. -- David Mccullough
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The sunsets, he told her, were the most beautiful he had ever seen, the clouds lighting up in all colors, the stars at night so bright he could read his watch by them. -- David Mccullough
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The past after all is only another name for someone else's present. -- David Mccullough
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Find something to do that you love because then the work itself is always the reward not the recompense. And if you love what you're doing you probably do better at it than doing something you don't love and therefore you'll be compensated appropriately. -- David Mccullough
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The disaster at Johnstown was one that need never have happened and a powerful reminder that it can be terribly dangerous, even perilous, to assume that because people hold positions of responsibility they are therefore acting responsibly. -- David Mccullough
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The experience at Suez was little help. Probably they would have been better off in the long run had there been no Suez Canal in their past. -- David Mccullough
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By the time he went to work for James J. Hill in 1889, he had survived Mexican fevers, Indian attack, Upper Michigan mosquitoes, and Canadian blizzards. He had been treed by wolves on one occasion; he -- David Mccullough
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In a day and age when, unfortunately, so few write letters or keep a diary any longer, the Wright Papers stand as a striking reminder of a time when that was not the way and of the immense value such writings can have in bringing history to life. -- David Mccullough
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When the founders wrote about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, they didn't mean longer vacations and more comfortable hammocks. They meant the pursuit of learning. The pursuit of improvement and excellence. In hard work is happiness. -- David Mccullough
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Sometimes the very struggle of getting the words down on paper does result in unexpected discoveries or clarifications. -- David Mccullough
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The man who wishes to keep at the problem long enough to really learn anything positively must not take dangerous risks. Carelessness and overconfidence are usually more dangerous than deliberately accepted risks. -- David Mccullough
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braced themselves. But on the morning of November -- David Mccullough
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To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.
[The Title Always Comes Last; NEH 2003 Jefferson Lecturer interview profile] -- David Mccullough
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If we think back through our own lives, the subjects that you liked best in school almost certainly were taught by the teachers you liked best. And the teacher you liked best was the teacher who cared about the subject she taught. -- David Mccullough
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It would be one of the great tragedies of history if at the very moment of the victory, now within our grasp, such distrust, such lack of faith, should prejudice the entire undertaking after the colossal losses of life, material and treasure. Churchill -- David Mccullough
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Elizabeth Blackwell, "with a very slender purse and few introductions of any value," found herself in the "unknown world" of Paris. What made her situation different from that of other American visitors was her profession. She was a doctor - the first American woman to have become a doctor. -- David Mccullough
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Courage is contagious. If a leader shows courage, others get the idea. -- David Mccullough
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There is a human longing to go back to other times. We all know how when we were children we asked our parents, "What was it like when you were a kid?" I think it probably has something to do with our survival as a species. -- David Mccullough
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1 Blue River Country As an agricultural region, Missouri is not surpassed by any state in the Union. It is indeed the farmer's kingdom. . . . - The History of Jackson County, Missouri, 1881 I -- David Mccullough
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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. -- David Mccullough
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If you haven't met Kenny (Young) you have not seen how the spirit of Boston can be embodied by one single man. -- David Mccullough
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Read. Read every chance you get. Read to keep growing. Read history. Read poetry. Read for pure enjoyment. Read a book called Life on a Little Known Planet. It's about insects. It will make you feel better. -- David Mccullough
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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. -- David Mccullough
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Real success is finding you lifework in the work that you love. -- David Mccullough
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Jacob Riis in his How the Other Half Lives -- David Mccullough
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I feel that what I do is a calling. I would pay to do what I do if I had to. I will never live long enough to do the work I want to do: the books I would like to write, the ideas I would like to explore. -- David Mccullough
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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. -- David Mccullough
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One learned to take time to savor life, much as one took time to savor a good meal or glass of wine. The French called it "l'entente de la vie," the harmony of life. -- David Mccullough
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But it isn't true," Orville responded emphatically, "to say we had no special advantages . . . the greatest thing in our favor was growing up in a family where there was always much encouragement to intellectual curiosity. -- David Mccullough
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A lie," he was once heard to declare on the floor of the Senate, "is an abomination unto the Lord and an ever-present help in time of need. -- David Mccullough
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I think that we need history as much as we need bread or water or love. -- David Mccullough
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I love to go to the places where things happen. I like to walk the walk and see how the light falls and what winter feels like. -- David Mccullough
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It is always easier to deal with things than with men, and no one can direct his life entirely as he would choose. -Wilbur Wright, 1911 -- David Mccullough
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Because it's of more importance to community, that innocence should be protected, than it is, that guilt should be punished. -- David Mccullough
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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. -- David Mccullough
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For instead of being "the ardent pursuer of science" that some imagined, Jefferson was the captive of ambition, and ambition, Adams told John Quincy, was "the subtlest beast of the intellectual and moral field . . . [and] wonderfully adroit in concealing itself from its owner. -- David Mccullough
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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. -- David Mccullough
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If everyone is special, then no one is. If everyone gets a trophy, trophies become meaningless. -- David Mccullough
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If a boy finds he can make a few articles with his hands, it tends to make him rely on himself. And the planning that is necessary for the execution of the work is a discipline and an education of great value to him. -- David Mccullough
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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. -- David Mccullough
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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. -- David Mccullough
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Nobody ever lived in the past. -- David Mccullough
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There is no doubt that people are in the long run what the government make out of them . . . ," Adams read in Rousseau. "The government ought to be what the people make it," he wrote in response. At -- David Mccullough
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Yes, this is a dangerous time. Yes, this is a time full of shadows and fear. But we have been through worse before and we have faced more difficult days before. We have shown courage and determination, and skillful and inventive and courageous and committed responses to crisis before. -- David Mccullough
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Facts are stubborn things, -- David Mccullough
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Wilbur would remark that if he were to give a young man advice on how to get ahead in life, he would say, Pick out a good father and mother, and begin life in Ohio. -- David Mccullough
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If I were giving a young man advice as to how he might succeed in life, I would say to him, pick out a good father and mother, and begin life in Ohio. WILBUR WRIGHT -- David Mccullough
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We dared to hope we had invented something that would bring lasting peace to the earth. But we were wrong. . . -- David Mccullough
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Sadly, too many today take for granted public schools, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, equality before the law, forgetting that these were ever novel and daring ideas. Once -- David Mccullough
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Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.
(Interview with NEH chairman Bruce Cole, Humanities, July/Aug. 2002, Vol. 23/No. 4) -- David Mccullough
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It is almost a reconciliation to having my leg broken to contemplate the amount of reading I am going to do this summer. I am getting better fast and I am afraid I'll get well so soon I won't get to read enough. -- David Mccullough
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I could not do what I do without the kindness, consideration, resourcefulness and work of librarians, particularly in public libraries. What started me writing history happened because of some curiosity that I had about some photographs I'd seen in the Library of Congress. -- David Mccullough
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locomotive, Special trucks -- David Mccullough
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America faces an enemy who believes in enforced ignorance. And all that we stand for is the open mind, the generous spirit, the ideal of tolerance, freedom, education, opportunity. -- David Mccullough
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his recreational passion at Sagamore Hill that summer of 1903 was the so-called point-to-point "obstacle walk," the one rule, the only rule, being that the participant must go up and over, or through, every obstacle, never around it. -- David Mccullough
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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. -- David Mccullough
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Only TR openly declared his love for the job. "Nobody ever enjoyed the presidency as I did," he boasted, and by all evidence that was so. "While president I have been president emphatically," he said. It -- David Mccullough
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George P. A. Healy; I knew no one in France, I was utterly ignorant of the language, I did not know what I should do when once there; but I was not yet one-and-twenty, and I had a great stock of courage, of inexperience - which is sometimes a great help - and a strong desire to be my very best. -- David Mccullough
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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. -- David Mccullough
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much by tribulation, and by adversity our hearts -- David Mccullough
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We learn much by tribulation, and by adversity our hearts are made better. -- David Mccullough
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The only new thing in the world is the history you don't know, -- David Mccullough
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I write on the typewriter. I like it because I like the feeling of making something with my hands. I like pressing the key and a letter comes up and is printed on a piece of paper. I can understand that. -- David Mccullough
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Wright died in his room at home at 7 Hawthorn Street at 3:15 in the morning, Thursday, May 30, 1912. He was forty-five years old. -- David Mccullough
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We believed in a good God, a bad Devil, and a hot Hell, and more than anything else we believed that same God did not intend man should ever fly. -- David Mccullough
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a leader must look and act the part. -- David Mccullough
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One of the things about the arts that is so important is that in the arts you discover the only way to learn how to do it is by doing it. You can't write by reading a book about it. The only way to learn how to write a book is to sit down and try to write a book -- David Mccullough
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To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college English courses - to read them now is to have one of the infinite pleasures in life. -- David Mccullough
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Just imagine if in his inaugural address John F. Kennedy had said, 'Ask not what your country can, you know, do for you, but what you can, like, do for your country actually, -- David Mccullough
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There's no such thing as a foreseeable future. -- David Mccullough
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I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber. -- David Mccullough
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However little television you watch, watch less. -- David Mccullough
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When you see one of these graceful crafts sailing over your head, and possibly over your home, as I expect you will in the near future, see if you don't agree with me that the flying machine is one of God's most gracious and precious gifts. -- David Mccullough
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The title always comes last. What I really work hard on is the beginning. Where do you begin? In what tone do you begin? I almost have to have a scene in my mind. -- David Mccullough
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Every mind should be true to itself - should think, investigate and conclude for itself, wrote Ingersoll. -- David Mccullough
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By the close of summer, with increasing losses from disease, desertions, and absences of one sort or other, his army was in serious decline. Spirits suffered. The patriotic fervor that had sent thousands rushing to the scene in late April and May was hardly evident any longer. -- David Mccullough
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To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. -- David Mccullough
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Once rolling the train would travel under the code name "POTUS," for "President of the United States, -- David Mccullough
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This is the clearest, most powerful summons yet, TO ALL OF US, to restore the American story to its rightful, vital place in American life and in how we educate our children. It couldn't be more timely and important. -- David Mccullough
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I can fairly be called an amateur because I do what I do, in the original sense of the word - for love, because I love it. On the other hand, I think that those of us who make our living writing history can also be called true professionals. -- David Mccullough
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Measurements are never enough. The artist's eye and desire to breathe life into the subject must be the deciding factors. -- David Mccullough
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Let no girl, no gun, no cards, no flutes, no violins, no dress, no tobacco, no laziness decoy you from your books. -- David Mccullough
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We're all what we read to a very considerable degree. So -- David Mccullough
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Who would live in this rank old Paris if it was not for its gardens?" - John Sanderson -- David Mccullough
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everyone. Berg and his wife, Edith, also an -- David Mccullough
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On a medical school professor noted for slowly, carefully interviewing the patient: He taught the love of truth. -- David Mccullough
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Steamboats by this time were becoming a familiar presence on the rivers and coastal waters of America, but not until 1838 did steam-powered ships cross the Atlantic. -- David Mccullough
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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. -- David Mccullough
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(now that tea was no longer acceptable), -- David Mccullough
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Take the teacher not the course. Find out who the great professors are - the great teachers - and take their courses because a subject that you may not think you're interested in may turn out to be infinitely fascinating because of the way it's taught. -- David Mccullough
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Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair. -- David Mccullough
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Is vintage Bunau-Varilla: My only reply to such critics is that they have not the -- David Mccullough
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No bird soars in a calm. WILBUR WRIGHT -- David Mccullough
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...avarice and stinginess [are] not frugality -- David Mccullough
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Common sense was sufficient to determine that it could not mean that all men were equal in fact, but in right, not all equally tall, strong, wise, handsome, active, but equally men . . . the work of the same Artist, children in the same cases entitled to the same justice. Nabby -- David Mccullough
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Little children can learn anything, just as they can learn a foreign language. The mind is so absorbent then. There ought to be a real program to educate teachers who want to teach grade school children about history. -- David Mccullough
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Talk helps shape one's thoughts. -- David Mccullough
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My wife, the star I steer by. -- David Mccullough
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until many years later. -- David Mccullough
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No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.
(The Course of Human Events, NEH Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities 2003) -- David Mccullough
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Among those who were about to stake so very much on him and his bridge, or who already had, there was not one who could honestly say he knew the man. -- David Mccullough
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As time would prove, he had written one of the great, enduring documents of the American Revolution. The constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is the oldest functioning written constitution in the world. -- David Mccullough
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Nothing ever invented can you a bigger life than a book. -- David Mccullough
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For a West Point graduate to abandon his appointed task in the face of adversity or personal discomfort was all but inconceivable. -- David Mccullough
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Every line from you exhilarates my spirits and gives me a glow of pleasure, but your kind congratulations are solid comfort to my heart. The little strength of mind and the considerable strenght of body that I once possessed appear to be all gone, but while I breathe I shall be your friend. -- David Mccullough
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Farmers and soldiers knew about the weather. Weather could be the great determiner between failure and success, the great test of one's staying power. -- David Mccullough
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Your education never stops and college is just the beginning. You come out of college with a huge advantage in that you've ideally and more times than not you've come out with a love of learning and that's what matters above all. -- David Mccullough
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stood a bit over five feet, and all who knew her knew what a force she was. In a household of three men and one woman, she more than held her own. She was the most vivacious of the family, a tireless, all-season -- David Mccullough
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On July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong, another American born and raised in western Ohio, stepped onto the moon, he carried with him, in tribute to the Wright brothers, a small swatch of the muslin from a wing of their 1903 Flyer. -- David Mccullough
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All of Johnstown's three or four blind people had survived the flood. -- David Mccullough
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Boston Latin School. -- David Mccullough
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In truth, the color line, of which almost nothing was said in print, cut through every facet of daily life in the Zone, and it was as clearly drawn and as closely observed as anywhere in the Deep South or the most rigid colonial enclaves in Africa. -- David Mccullough
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He was also a vociferous champion of abstinence from hard or spirituous liquors - but then no one's perfect. In -- David Mccullough
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("It seemed to be the principle employment of both armies to look at each other with spyglasses," wrote the eminent Loyalist Peter Oliver, former chief justice of the province.) -- David Mccullough
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I've always been dissatisfied, I know that. But lately I find that I reek of discontentment. It fills my throat, and it floods my brain. And sometimes I fear there is no longer a dream, but only the discontentment. -- David Mccullough
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. I want to say many things I must omit. It is not fit to wake the soul by tender strokes of art, or to ruminate upon happiness we might enjoy, lest absences become intolerable. -- David Mccullough
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If Preston Brooks with his attack had brought him near death, was it not his old friend Appleton who had observed, "When good Americans die they go to Paris"? -- David Mccullough
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reputedly consulted with the spirit of a dead Sioux Indian chief. -- David Mccullough
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Panama still more extraordinary machines would work an even more astonishing success. The wonderful thing was that the American dredges did -- David Mccullough
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the Flyer and tossed it along the sand "just like you've seen an umbrella turned inside out and loose in the wind," remembered John -- David Mccullough
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Brought home her college friends and put on -- David Mccullough
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No bird soars in a calm. -- David Mccullough
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As the Sword was the last resort for the preservation of our liberties, so it ought to be the first thing laid aside when those liberties are firmly established -- David Mccullough
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I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene -- David Mccullough
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But no statistic conveyed a true picture of Panama rain. It had to be seen, to be felt, smelled; it had to be heard to be appreciated. The effect was much as though the heavens had opened and the air had turned instantly liquid. -- David Mccullough
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Indeed, bribery, favoritism, and corruption in a great variety of forms were rampant not only in politics, but in all levels of society. -- David Mccullough
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My love is to tell a story but I like stories that evolve from character, from the nature of the individuals involved. -- David Mccullough
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when you have something important to do, if there are two of you, you have one too many. -- David Mccullough
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And it's so easy because you become so self-conscious and so intellectual and so analytical about it in the long run that you lose that wonderful sort of ego that you have that says, 'Oh, goddamn it, I don't care; I love it anyway; I'm going to do it! -- David Mccullough
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. . The Democratic Party puts human rights and human welfare first. . . . These Republican gluttons of privilege are cold men. They are cunning men. . . . They want a return of the Wall Street economic dictatorship. . -- David Mccullough
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Recently been killed in an accident. Much that he read -- David Mccullough
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Later that same spring of 1872, in his own annual report, Roebling would write that most men got over their troubles either by suffering for a long time or "by applying the heroic mode of returning into the caisson at once as soon as pains manifested themselves. -- David Mccullough
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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) -- David Mccullough
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The preservation of liberty depends upon the intellectual and moral character of the people. As long as knowledge and virtue are diffused generally among the body of a nation, it is impossible they should be enslaved. . . . -- David Mccullough
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The best dividends on the labor invested have invariably come from seeking more knowledge rather than more power. Signed Wilbur and Orville Wright, March 12, 1906. -- David Mccullough
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With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his tracks in the war. When I got there, there was a certain satisfaction in finding I had it right - it does look like that. -- David Mccullough
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They must be cool but determined ... he threatened instant death to any man who showed cowardice. -- David Mccullough
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California Congressman -- David Mccullough
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power is not the point, responsibility is the point and at the heart of responsibility always are moral choices. In what we do, in what we say, what we stand for, we must feel, as did the founders of the nation, as did the founders of this college, that it is the example of America that matters. So -- David Mccullough
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A man who works for the immediate present and its immediate rewards is nothing but a fool. -- David Mccullough
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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. -- David Mccullough
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Dyer 5 bu Paid 3.50 Hogs and Cattle Aug 23 9 hogs to K.C. 74.38 24 1 " " " 15.93 Oct 18 1 cow " " 32.85 -- David Mccullough
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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. -- David Mccullough
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Remove yourself, sir! -- David Mccullough
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Why limit yourself to the experience of your own relatively brief time on earth, according to your biological clock, when the whole realm of the human experience reaching back infinitely far is available to you? -- David Mccullough
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He loved politics in large part exactly because it meant time spent with men like Cactus Jack Garner(who would be remembered for observing that the vice presidency was not worth a pitcher of warm piss). -- David Mccullough
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Never assume that people in positions of responsibility are behaving responsibly. -- David Mccullough
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To be unable to read was the ultimate measure of wretchedness. -- David Mccullough
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I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. Their -- David Mccullough
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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. -- David Mccullough
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All the money anyone needs is just enough to prevent one from being a burden on others. -- David Mccullough
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Books can change your life. Some of the most influential people in our lives are characters we meet in books. -- David Mccullough
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He wasn't a hero, or an original thinker. His beliefs were their beliefs, their way of talking was his way of talking. He was on their side. He was one of them. If he stumbled over a phrase or a name, he would grin and try again, and they would smile with -- David Mccullough
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I love all sides of the work but that doesn't mean it isn't hard. -- David Mccullough
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It had taken four years. -- David Mccullough
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A veteran artist counsels a less experienced one to start a painting using colors in the middle range so that the painter can move to more extreme colors as the work progresses. -- David Mccullough
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In New York the Seligmans were major backers of the immensely profitable Pioneer Cattle Company, and Poultney Bigelow's father, the diplomat John Bigelow, was another of those tied into Teschemacher & DeBillier. -- David Mccullough
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He had kept his head, kept his health and his strength, bearing up under a weight of work and worry that only a few could have carried. -- David Mccullough
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The author perceives nuances of Abigail Adams' character in the occasional errors she makes in readily quoting John Milton. Rather than giving the observer a reason to quibble, they are evidence that she had absorbed Milton's works enough to feel comfortable quoting them from memory. -- David Mccullough
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I often think of that when I hear people say that they haven't time to read. -- David Mccullough
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There are no people on earth in whom a spirit of enthusiastic zeal is so readily kindled, and burns so remarkably, as Americans -- David Mccullough
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The important thing is that the President be saved from his friends. Bill Hassett urged Truman to rid himself of Boyle without delay. "Your friends will destroy you," Hassett pleaded. "It's all right, Bill," Truman said, as if trying to calm a child. "It's all right." Truman -- David Mccullough
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A man who has not better government of his tongue, no more command of his temper, is unfit for everything but children's play and the company of boys. -- David Mccullough
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in every thing one must consider the end." The -- David Mccullough
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oldest of all forms -- David Mccullough
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Since September 11, it seems to me that never in our lifetime, except possibly in the early stages of World War II, has it been clearer that we have as a source of strength, a source of direction, a source of inspiration - our story. -- David Mccullough
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People were born and raised Democrats as they were born and raised Baptists or Catholics. It was not something you questioned. As one said, "You were a Democrat come hell or high water. Or you were a Republican." In -- David Mccullough
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Everybody wants something at the expense of everybody else and nobody thinks much of the other fellow," Truman -- David Mccullough
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remodeled glider to Kill Devil Hills to resume testing. -- David Mccullough
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Those for whom things came easily usually made less of an effort, not more. -- David Mccullough
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Read. Read. Read. Read. Read great books. Read poetry, history, biography. Read the novels that have stood the test of time. And read closely. -- David Mccullough
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Thanks to God that he gave me stubbornness when I know I am right. ~John -- David Mccullough
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Pen, ink, and paper and a sitting posture are great helps to attention and thinking. -- David Mccullough
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Eustatius in the Caribbean. At present, there was powder -- David Mccullough
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To shut yourself from history is to shut yourself off from say music or painting or the theatre, literature for the rest of your life. It would be to cheat yourself of the pleasures of life. -- David Mccullough
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The preparations were elaborate and mammoth in scale, and Washington threw himself into the effort, demanding that not an hour be lost. -- David Mccullough
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Holmes, who was five years younger, had seen -- David Mccullough
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the formality of the presidency, all -- David Mccullough
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We want great men who, when fortune frowns, will not be discouraged. ~Colonel Henry Knox -- David Mccullough
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Later, following the funeral, he took all the family's horses, including his own, up into one of the mountain ravines and shot them. -- David Mccullough
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A people unused to restraint must be led, they will not be drove. -- David Mccullough
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The thought of going abroad makes my heart Leap," (Charles) Sumner wrote. "I feel, when I commune with myself about it, as when dwelling on the countenance and voice of a lovely girl. I am in love with Europa. -- David Mccullough
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I want people to see that all-important time in a different way-in the way it was. For of a number of reasons, including the absence of photographs, we tend to see the men and women of the Revolution as not quite real. And we have far too little sense of what they suffered. -- David Mccullough
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You have to have wisdom and knowledge as well as virtue to preserve your rights and liberties. -- David Mccullough
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You will ever remember that all the end of study is to make you a good man and a useful citizen, Adams -- David Mccullough
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It was an utterly phenomenal achievement. -- David Mccullough
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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. -- David Mccullough
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Wilbur had already made an immensely important and altogether original advance toward their goal. -- David Mccullough
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The great thing about the arts is that you can only learn to do it by doing it. -- David Mccullough
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The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think ... Let us dare to read, think, speak, write. -- David Mccullough
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Business is merely a form of warfare in which each combatant strives to get the business away from his competitors and at the same time keep them from getting what he already has. -- David Mccullough
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As Truman saw the presidency, the chief responsibility was to make decisions and he made some of the most difficult and far-reaching of any president. If not brilliant or eloquent, he was courageous and principled. The invisible something he brought to the office was character. -- David Mccullough
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There was no opiate like a French pillow. -- David Mccullough
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Strange it was that the British commander-in-chief, known for his chronic gambling, seemed to give no thought to how his American opponent might play his hand. O -- David Mccullough
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Religion, superstition, oaths, education, laws, all give way before passions, interest, and power. -- David Mccullough
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The only way to compose myself and collect my thoughts," he wrote in his diary,"is to set down at my table, place my diary before me, and take my pen into my hand. -- David Mccullough
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Adams was both a devout Christian and an independent thinker, and he saw no conflict in that. -- David Mccullough
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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. -- David Mccullough
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A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia. -- David Mccullough
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Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams -- David Mccullough
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For a free, self-governing people, something more than a vague familiarity with history is essential, if we are to hold on to and sustain our freedom. -- David Mccullough
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When I began, I thought that the way one should work was to do all the research and then write the book. -- David Mccullough
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When a bill was put before the state legislature in Jefferson City that would have prohibited anyone who owned a saloon from holding elective office and reporters asked what he thought of it, Alderman Jim said probably the bill was intended as a way of improving the reputation of saloonkeepers. -- David Mccullough
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Gerald Ford, one of the most admirable presidents of our time, once observed that if Lincoln were alive today, he'd be turning over in his grave. With -- David Mccullough
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Your father's zeal for books will be one of the last desires which will quit him, Abigail observed to John Quincy -- David Mccullough
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In truth, the situation was worse than they realized, and no one perceived this as clearly as Washington. Seeing things as they were, and not as he would wish them to be, was one of his salient strengths. -- David Mccullough
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I think instead of opposing systematically any administration, running down their characters and opposing all their measures, right or wrong, we ought to support every administration as far as we can in justice. -- David Mccullough
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But it is not really necessary to look too far into the future; we see enough already to be certain that it will be magnificent. Only let us hurry and open the roads. -- David Mccullough
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Adams lay peacefully, his mind clear, by all signs. Then late in the afternoon, according to several who were present in the room, he stirred and whispered clearly enough to be understood, Thomas Jefferson survives. -- David Mccullough
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from Switzerland, came into the valley -- David Mccullough
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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. -- David Mccullough
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Honesty, sincerity, and openness, I esteem essential marks of a good mind, -- David Mccullough
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Never contradict anybody," he was advised by Franklin, whom he admired above all men, though it was advice he hardly needed. -- David Mccullough
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Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave. -- David Mccullough
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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. -- David Mccullough
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Napoleon could never imagine that some people loved their country as much as he loved his own. -- David Mccullough
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It is very bad policy to ask one flying machine man about the experiments of another, because every flying machine man thinks that his method is the only correct one. -- David Mccullough
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It was a day and age that saw no reason why one could not learn whatever was required - learn vitally anything - by the close study of books. -- David Mccullough
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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. -- David Mccullough
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When I'm reading for my own pleasure, I read things other than history or archival material. I read a lot of fiction. I'm very fond of mysteries. -- David Mccullough
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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
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Well, all the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them do what they are supposed to do anyway. Truman -- David Mccullough
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To write is to think, and to write well is to think well, -- David Mccullough
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Hardly a soul spoke a word of English. All this they had been forewarned about, but the difference between what one had been told and what one came to understand firsthand was enormous. -- David Mccullough
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When you start to write, things begin to come into focus in a way they don't when you're not writing. It's a very good way to find out how much you don't know because you learn specifically what you need to know that you don't know at the moment by writing. -- David Mccullough
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Yes, we have much to be seriously concerned about, much that needs to be corrected, improved, or dispensed with. But the vitality and creative energy, the fundamental decency, the tolerance and insistence on truth, and the good-heartedness of the American people are there still plainly. Many -- David Mccullough
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the evolutions of the bird on the wing are quite as safe and infinitely more rapid and beautiful than the movements of either the quadruped on the land or the fish in the water. -- David Mccullough
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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. -- David Mccullough
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Why would anyone wish to be provincial in time, any more than being tied down to one place through life, when the whole reach of the human drama is there to experience in some of the greatest books ever written. -- David Mccullough
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Let us have gardens, then, and other public places where we may see our friends, and parade our vanities, if you will, before the eyes of the world. Did you ever know anyone who was not delighted with a garden? - John Sanderson -- David Mccullough
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When I read that the British army had landed thirty-two thousand troops - and I had realized, not very long before, that Philadelphia only had thirty thousand people in it - it practically lifted me out of my chair. -- David Mccullough
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He asked for national compulsory health insurance to be funded by payroll deductions. Under the system, all citizens would receive medical and hospital service irrespective of their ability to pay. And -- David Mccullough
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little of consequence is ever accomplished alone. High achievement is nearly always a joint effort, -- David Mccullough
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LORD BOLINGBROKE, the eighteenth-century political philosopher, said that "history is philosophy teaching by examples." Thucydides is reported to have said much the same thing two thousand years earlier. Jefferson -- David Mccullough
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s ships Phoenix and Rose, in the company of three tenders, cast off their moorings at Staten Island and started up the harbor under full sail, moving swiftly with the favorable wind and a perfect flood tide. Alarm guns sounded in New York. Soldiers -- David Mccullough
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Lord, grant that I may always be right, for Thou knowest I am hard to turn, -- David Mccullough
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Lord Chatham, the King of Prussia, nay, Alexander the Great, never gained more in one campaign than the noble lord has lost-he has lost a whole continent. -- David Mccullough
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The Reverend Chapman wrote later. I think none was afraid to meet God, but we all felt willing to put it off until a more propitious time . . . -- David Mccullough
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The more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them. -- David Mccullough
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May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof. -- David Mccullough
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My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear and interesting and compelling to me, then I hope maybe it will be for the reader. -- David Mccullough
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Free speech is a restraint on government; not an incitement to the citizen. -- David Mccullough
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it seems to me that one of the truths about history that needs to be made clear to a student or to a reader is that nothing ever had to happen the way it happened. -- David Mccullough
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mendacity." He then introduced his son to the President, -- David Mccullough
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We are raising a generation of young Americans who are, to a very large degree, historically illiterate. It's not their faults. There's no problem about enlisting their interest in history. None. The problem is the teachers so often have no history in their background. -- David Mccullough
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Read somewhat in the English poets every day. You will find them elegant, entertaining and constructive companions through your whole life. -- David Mccullough
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I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene. -- David Mccullough
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A man who will steal for me will steal from me. Theodore Roosevelt, dismissing on the spot one of his best cowhands who was about to claim for his boss an unmarked animal. -- David Mccullough
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Remembered "the wind usually blows." Nowhere in the talk had he said a word about the gasoline -- David Mccullough
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For more than fifty years, or long before the Wright brothers took up their part, would-be "conquerors of the air" and their strange or childish flying machines, as described in the press, had served as a continuous source of popular comic relief. -- David Mccullough
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The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor? -- David Mccullough
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[While writing history], I've kept the most interesting company imaginable with people long gone. Some I've come to know better than many I know in real life, since in real life we don't get to read other people's mail. -- David Mccullough
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They could imitate every movement of the wings of those gannets; we thought they were crazy, but we just had to admire the way they could move their arms this way and that and bend their elbows and wrist bones up and down and which way, just like the gannets. -- David Mccullough
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Why do some men reach for the stars and so many others never even look up? -- David Mccullough
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Thus began the Bulloch line in America, the annals of which, by Mittie's time, included one noted -- David Mccullough
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He worked at a plain, tall desk at which he wrote standing up or perched on a high stool, -- David Mccullough
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In an exhibition wherein paintings of nudes were commonplace, that of Madame Gautreau in her black evening dress was considered scandalously erotic. -from The Greater Journey -- David Mccullough
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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. -- David Mccullough
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Today's prime fact is war," Henry Stimson had said at the start of one Interim -- David Mccullough
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Death's door. "McKINLEY IS DYING," read the large headline -- David Mccullough
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It is my duty to bear everything that I cannot help. From -- David Mccullough
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Remember all men would be tyrants if they could - from a poem by Daniel Defoe, as written by Abigail to John Adams -- David Mccullough
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There is only one person who can measure your success. That person is you. -- David Mccullough
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About these scientists," Truman said, "we need men with great intellects, need their ideas. But we need to balance them with other kinds of people, too. -- David Mccullough
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Writing again, he stressed that the events of war are always uncertain. Then, paraphrasing a favorite line from the popular play Cato by Joseph Addison - a line that General Washington, too, would often call upon - Adams told her, We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it. -- David Mccullough
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Patience which I assure you requires more force of character than does action. -- David Mccullough
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Of all animal movements, flight is indisputably the finest. . . . The fact that a creature as heavy, bulk for bulk, as many solid substances, can by the unaided movements of its wings urge itself through the air with a speed little short of a cannonball, fills the mind with wonder. -- David Mccullough
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The first of all qualities of a general is courage. -- David Mccullough
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The clock would be simple if you destroyed all the wheels . . . but it would not tell the time of day. On -- David Mccullough
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Make business first, pleasure afterward, and that guarded. All the money anyone needs is just enough to prevent one from being a burden on others. He made a point of treating -- David Mccullough
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Had Howe pressed on the afternoon of the 27th, the British victory could have been total. Or had the wind turned earlier, and the British navy moved into the East River, the war and the chances of an independent United States of America could have been long delayed, or even ended there and then. -- David Mccullough
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It so happens that the work which is likely to be our most durable monument, and to convey some knowledge of us to the most remote posterity, is a work of bare utility; not a shrine, not a fortress, not a palace, but a bridge. - MONTGOMERY SCHUYLER IN HARPER'S WEEKLY, MAY 24, 1883 -- David Mccullough
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It must not remain our desire only to acquire the art of the bird," Lilienthal had written. "It is our duty not to rest until we have attained a perfect scientific conception of the problem of flight. -- David Mccullough
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In America, applause is won only by physical exertion. -- David Mccullough
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Climb mountains not so the world can see you, but so you can see the world. -- David Mccullough
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Spotting talent is one of the essential elements of great leadership. -- David Mccullough
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one leg crossed nonchalantly over the other. -- David Mccullough
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I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down. -- David Mccullough
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We should draw on our story, we should draw on our history. If we don't know who we are, if we don't know how we became what we are, we're going to start suffering from all the obvious detrimental effects of amnesia. -- David Mccullough
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I'm drawn particularly to stories that evolve out of the character of the protagonist. -- David Mccullough
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Charles - Charlie - Taylor had -- David Mccullough
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You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition.
Spoken by Abigail Adams -- David Mccullough
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The Democratic Party would win in November because the Democratic Party was the people's party. The Republicans were the party of the privileged few, as always. -- David Mccullough
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Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book. -- David Mccullough
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the, situation still -- David Mccullough
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Vivez joyeux" was the old saying. "Live joyfully. -- David Mccullough
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Higher, Orville, higher! -- David Mccullough
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Lord Bolingbroke, who was an eighteenth-century political philosopher, called history "philosophy taught with examples. -- David Mccullough
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marinate your mind -- David Mccullough
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We live, my dear soul, in an age of trial. What will be the consequence I know not. John Adams, in a letter to Abigail Adams -- David Mccullough
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Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries. -- David Mccullough
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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
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The most interesting people are never perfect. -- David Mccullough
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It is in Paris that the beating of Europe's heart is felt. Paris is the city of cities. - Victor Hugo -- David Mccullough
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I would pay to do what I do if I had to. -- David Mccullough
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Bier, and I think it proper that I should try to clear the atmosphere. -- David Mccullough
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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. -- David Mccullough
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By reaching for the stars, Jefferson gave us all the impulse. He -- David Mccullough
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Had proven himself a leader of remarkable ability, a man not only of enterprising ideas, but with the staying power to carry them out. -- David Mccullough
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Nothing happens in isolation. Everything that happens has consequences. We -- David Mccullough
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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. -- David Mccullough
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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. -- David Mccullough
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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. -- David Mccullough
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It would be the most crucial day of the entire war. -- David Mccullough
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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. -- David Mccullough
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no getting too big for their britches, -- David Mccullough
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The chief need was skill rather than machinery. It was impossible to fly without both knowledge and skill - of this Wilbur was already certain - and skill came only from experience - experience in the air. -- David Mccullough
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Only those who [do] nothing [make] no mistakes. -- David Mccullough
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How unpardonable would it have been in you to have turned out a blockhead. How -- David Mccullough
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I feel that as much as I enjoy loafing, there is something higher for which to live. -- David Mccullough
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To hold the reader's attention, you have to bring the person who's reading the book inside the experience of the time: What was it like to have been alive then? What were these people like as human beings? -- David Mccullough
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readers' attention, such as one -- David Mccullough
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You won't get fired if you do something, you will if you don't do anything. Do something if it is wrong, for you can correct that, but there is no way to correct nothing. -- David Mccullough
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Public business, my son, must always be done by somebody. It will be done by somebody or other. If wise men decline it, others will not; if honest men refuse it, others will not. -- David Mccullough
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The title did not make the man, of course, but it enhanced the standing of the man in the eyes of others. -- David Mccullough
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Integrity should be preserved in all events, as essential to his happiness, through every stage of his existence. -- David Mccullough
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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? -- David Mccullough
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There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing. -- David Mccullough