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marinate your mind — David McCullough

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

You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history. — David McCullough

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

What I want is only a wish. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

You can create an intimate community of about 20 or 25 people, and beyond that you're into a different kind of relationship. — Barbara Brown Taylor

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

Books are precious things and cannot be selected like tinned peas in Tesco. — Colin Bateman

Would anyone test the memory of human children by throwing them into a swimming pool to see if they remember where to get out? Yet — Frans De Waal

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

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

We can easily represent things as we wish them to be. — Aesop

I think that we need history as much as we need bread or water or love. — David McCullough

A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity. — Alexander Smith

Napoleon could never imagine that some people loved their country as much as he loved his own. — David McCullough

The only new thing in the world is the history you don't know, — David McCullough

You can achieve your set-goals by God's grace — Lailah Gifty Akita

What would it take for me to eat human flesh? If that was the only way to stay alive, I would. I would eat anything. — Dominic Monaghan

It would be the most crucial day of the entire war. — David McCullough

Remove yourself, sir! — David McCullough

Lord Bolingbroke, who was an eighteenth-century political philosopher, called history "philosophy taught with examples. — David McCullough

How rare that an artist should make something which forces us to think, and encourages us to stop and think, to question why we behave the way we do. — Martin Firrell

I think it [Blu-ray] has 5 years left, I certainly wouldn't give it 10, — Andy Griffiths

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

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant. — Hilary Mantel

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are. — David McCullough

I think I would have taken a (expletive) load of Advil. — Ernie Els

He didn't choose between me and you, Julia: it was between me and ruin. — Georgette Heyer