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"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."
"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."
"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."
"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."
"A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation."
Explore more quotes by David McCullough
"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."
"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."
"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?"
"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."
"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."
"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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