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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The Johnstown flood was not an act of God or nature. It was brought by human failure, human shortsightedness and selfishness.David McCullough
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.
David McCullough
It was a small battle, but it was very important, because we won for the first time, ... It had a huge psychological effect. . . . That was its importance. They sensed it was possible, possible - not guaranteed, nothing was guaranteed - that we might prevail.
David McCullough
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
It could be argued that the Johnstown flood of 1889 wasn't a natural disaster at all, but the inevitable consequence of humans thinking they could control nature. Whatever the cause, the day after a dam burst, unleashing 20 million tons of water on the residents of Johnstown, Pa., and its neighboring boroughs, the area looked like a vast sea of muck and rubble and filthy water, ... The Johnstown Flood.
David McCullough
I love all sides of the work but that doesn't mean it isn't hard.
David McCullough
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